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A burgeoning Asian-American community is slowly changing the political landscape in Atlantic County. Candidates running for U.S. Congress, county sheriff and freeholder, and municipal offices have been paying attention. Many of them made appearances last week at an Indian dinner in Galloway and an Eid-al-Fitr celebration in Atlantic City, organized by the Bangladesh Association of South Jersey. While Asian-Americans are very diverse, culturally and ethnically, they represent a desirable voting block because many are politically unaffiliated and, among voters, tend to have a high turnout rate, said Jane Junn, a professor at Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute of Politics, who is Korean American...
