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this is so interesting. when we look at the 1965 voting rights act and what it did with african-americans and vastly increasing the number of black voters in the system, it is somehow like a new group, immigrant group coming in and coming into the political system. what s important, look at the voting rights act has evolved and is key to mobilizing the asian american vote. one other provision says a population over 5% in a particular area, you have to have ballot materials in the indigenous language. without the voting rights act, you would not have that provision, we see a generation later that will have that parallel. we insisted in the first hour that african-american voting needed to be policy based and not just identity based and so i m wondering, we re talking a little on the identity politics piece here for asian american voters, is president obama the first asian american voter? ....

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