It’s just barely a month to go before Americans elect their new president. The prime contenders are Hillary Clinton representing the Democrats and Donald Trump representing the Republicans.
It may be recalled that Trump has been compared to the Philippines’ just-installed President Rodrigo Duterte. In fact, Duterte has been tagged as the “Donald Trump of Asia.”
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Now, this is interesting.
According to data from the National Asian American Survey (NAAS) survey on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters — which was conducted from Aug 10 to Sep 29 — Donald Trump got the highest favorability rating from Filipinos.
“The participant pool included 2,238 Asian Americans and 305 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (NHPI). The data analyzed came from the following ethnic groups: Asian Indian (274), Chinese (281), Filipino (201), Korean (286), Japanese (147) and Vietnamese (295), Hmong (151), Cambodian (59) and NHPIs (291). The interviews were conducted in English along with nine Asian languages: Cambodia, Cantonese, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, and Vietnamese,” reports Asian Journal.
Moreover, the survey also “compared results among native born and foreign born AAPI, young (18-34) and older (35+) AAPI and men and women.” The margin of error was +/- 3.5 percent.
It turns out that, 54 percent of the registered Filipino voters surveyed said that Clinton was their “presidential vote choice.” Then again, “a quarter of the Filipinos surveyed prefer Trump for the presidency.”
In fact, as the Asian Journal stated, “it’s the highest Trump favorability rating among all surveyed ethnic groups.”
The report went on to explain that “although Filipinos generally support progressive issues, they were the ethnic group with the highest opposition rates in certain issues.”
“For example, although 62 percent of Filipinos support climate change initiatives, they had the highest opposition of the surveyed groups at 18 percent. Other issues in which Filipinos comprised the highest opposition ratings included accepting Syrian refugees into the U.S. (41 percent), climate change initiatives (18 percent) and equal rights for black Americans (22 percent),” explained Asian Journal.
