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Obama’s Asian Problem

Isaac Chotiner takes a look at possible reasons why Asian American voters don’t seem to like Barack Obama very much. Most of this comes down to Asian voters just not being particularly liberal along a couple of dimensions, but Isaac also points to some political clumsiness on Obama’s part, from the “D-Punjab” incident to a tendency to sometimes forget Asians exists when off on a post-racial reverie.

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