A pre-election survey of 840 active Filipino community leaders in America showed a strong shift of undecided registered voters towards the Obama camp in the last several weeks before the elections that gave Senator Barrack Obama of Illinois a decisive 58-42 share of the Filipino vote.
The survey was done by phone, email and personal conversations with community leaders of two party-neutral national Filipino federations, the National Federation of Filipino-American Associations (NaFFAA), who recently attended a national conference in Seattle, Washington and the business-oriented Federation of Philippine-American Chambers of Commerce (FPACC). The survey was also conducted in a recent meeting of community leaders in L.A., with almost a million Filipino residents, the largest concentration of Filipinos in the U.S., and in a meeting with Texas community leaders from Dallas, Houston, Tyler, McAllen and Austin at a fundraiser for Hurricane Ike victims a day before the Nov. 4 elections...
