Power of Our Votes

Melany de la Cruz-Viesca, assistant director of UCLA Asian American Studies Center

According to the 1980s, Latinos were in the same situation Asians currently are.

Are we the next sleeping giant?

In the top-10 states, there are going to be some key battlegrounds such as Nevada, Virginia.

24.1 percent of adult Asian Americans are born citizens.

29 percent of Asians were registered to vote in 2006

33 percent of Asians voted in 2006

Daniel Ichinose, project director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center
427,000 Asian American registered voters (11 percent of all registered voters) in Los Angeles
209,000 Asian American registered voters (11 percent of all registered voters) in Orange County

Data shows that Asian American political participation has greatly increased over the past eight years.

Janelle Hu, board member of APIAVote
Explains the origin of APIAVote -- it began as a grassroots campaign out of a nationally recognized AAPI organization.

Talks about how APIAVote has been about to build over the course of the past electoral cycles. Plans on growing to do more about issues relating to APIA communities in non-election years.