And many say they will be pulling the lever for the candidate they most associate with – a second-generation minority.
James Yee, the former US Army Guantanamo Chaplain and 2008 National Delegate for Barack Obama was out doing some grassroots campaigning in Ohio from October 23-26 for the Democratic Presidential Nominee. He made stops in Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati.
There has been fierce political debating in the homes of Korean Americans, something that happened rarely in the past. Conservative generations of parents backed Republican presidential candidate John McCain, while their children zealously supported Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
Not long after Bobby Jindal became the youngest current governor in the United States, another young Indian American is locked in one of the toughest congressional contests in the country.
Democrat Ashwin Madia, a 30-year-old Iraq veteran and currently a civil lawyer specialising in intellectual property, has taken on an established Republican leader for a seat in Minnesota held by the Republicans since 1960.
Hollywood actor Kal Penn fits the profile of Indian Americans campaigning for Barack Obama. He is born American, well educated, successful, and most importantly young.
LORTON, VA. (AP) - For a long time, says Loc Pfeiffer, his fellow Asian-Americans were passive participants in American politics. But things are changing.
"Asians don't like confrontation or being adversarial, but that's politics," says Pfeiffer, a 41-year-old lawyer who was 6 when his parents brought him to America from Vietnam.
Perhaps Vincent Chin, whose death in 1982 fomented the pan-ethnic Asian American movement, can rest assured that America's leaders have finally heard his community's voice.
