By May Chow
AsianWeek Staff Writer
With almost 200 Asian Pacific American candidates running for office in this November’s election, voters all across America went to the polls last Tuesday and elected more than 100 APAs to represent them locally and nationally, with the most significant APA gains in state houses.
A Tipping Point
Michael Liu, community programs coordinator for the Institute for Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, said the success of APAs in this year’s elections might reflect a “tipping point” for APA political participation.
“There’s enough of an APA base in many parts of the country that APA candidates can seriously consider running and winning,” Liu said. “Here in Boston, Chinatown has increased its voter turnout rate by 70 percent and has led all neighborhoods in the city in increasing voter participation in the last three years.”
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