Q: How dare 80-20 claim credit for building a 3 to 1 bloc vote?
    There are 3 million Asian Am. voters, you don't have an email list
    to reach 75% of 3 million voters, do you?

A: Blacks have voted about 9 to 1 for the Democratic presidential
    nominee for decades. Jewish Ams deliver a 8 to 2 bloc vote. Neither
    the black nor the Jewish community has large email lists. That is
    not how a bloc vote is created.

Q: So how did 80-20 create a bloc vote?

A: Have you ever attended large meetings with tens or hundreds of
    people? At these meetings, if 20% or more of the people speak
    enthusiastically for a given idea and provide good reasons while the
    opposition is weak, 80% of the people will end up voting for that idea.
    So 80-20's email list is used to create that critical mass of enthusiastic
    supporters and arm them with good reasons in voting for a given
    candidate. After that, their daily interaction with other Asia Am voters,
    aided by commercial ads paid for by 80-20, will naturally produce the
    bloc vote. Hence, most of the Asian Ams. who vote for the candidate
    endorsed by 80-20 may not even have heard of 80-20. That is how a
    bloc vote is built.

Q: Why are some Asian Am. against a bloc vote?

A: Most new immigrants don't realize that in America, every racial
    and/or interest group advocates a bloc vote. They include the
    Democratic Party, Republican Party, blacks, Jewish Ams, Hispanics,
    Cuban Ams, women's organizations, gays, labor unions, corporations…,
    etc. These groups have practiced bloc vote all along. Persuasion for a
    bloc vote is not necessary for them. In contrast, 80-20 needs to help
    new Asian immigrants climb a steep learning curve about American
    politics. Hence 80-20 must explicitly & repeatedly advocate and
    discuss the need for a bloc vote.

    What if we don't? Our children will continue to face a higher admission
    standard to elite,schools. Our adults will continue to face a higher
    "admission" standard to good jobs, e.g. managerial positions
    and Federal judgeships.

Q: Are things improving owing to 80-20's effort?

A: Definitely. Here are facts that you've personally witnessed in
    recent months:

11/29/07, 80-20 began to pressure Sen. Clinton with a "Call to Action."
12/11, Sen. Clinton replied with all yeses, while suggesting rightful
       modifications.

12/12, Sen. Edwards signed with all yeses.
12/31, Governor Richardson signed with all yeses.
12/28, 80-20 began to get Sen. Obama on board with a "Call To Action
          -- Defeat Obama."

1/18/08, 80-20 held a press conference in SF endorsing Sen. Clinton for
       the Calif. Democratic primary.
1/31, Sen. Obama replied with all yeses, while suggesting modifications
        to strengthen his commitment to the Asian Am. community.

Q: What about media attention to Asian Americans?

A: Definitely increasing. "Goggle or Yahoo" to see how many articles have
    been written in the mainstream media about the Asian Am. bloc vote
    since Super Tuesday. They lack understanding of the Asian Am.
    community owing to the long "benign neglect" by both media and
    political parties. Hence, the initial coverage may even be bad. An
    example is the CNN's Anderson Cooper report. But under 80-20's
    leadership we've reacted civilly but strongly. See our petition site:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=tHYZlyz32wF0OLEZacHNWA_3d_3d
    Things will improve. A new article in Time Magazine is coming.
    Another by a news group called the New America Media is coming
    Support 80-20 EF financially please.
    http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org .

   Post your comments at
http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/posterboard.html .

Respectfully yours,
S. B. Woo
President, 80-20 Educational Foundation.
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PS: For those who forgot why a bloc vote is so powerful, here is the
illustration for the 5th time. :-)

Two candidates run against each other in a political division, which
for simplicity is assumed to have two constituent groups only. One
group has 1 million votes (8%) and the other has 11 million votes
(92%). Candidate A, a novice, courts the larger group, not being
aware that the smaller constituent group has the internal political
cohesion to deliver a bloc vote in the ratio of 8 to 2 while the larger
group does not. When the ballots are open, candidate A wins the
larger community by the ratio of 52/48. The margin of difference is
4%. Since the larger group has 11 millions votes, 4% of 11 million
votes provides a winning margin of 440,000 votes to candidate A.
His opponent, candidate B, is a seasoned politician. She courts the
smaller group and wins that community by a ratio of 80 to 20. The
difference between 80% and 20% is 60%. 60% of 1 million votes is
600,000 votes. As a result, candidate B wins the election by
(600,000 – 440,000) or 160,000 votes.

8% of the vote is what Asian Ams have in Calif, which has by far the
largest impact in a presidential election. 80-20 has designed the
above strategy to increase our GROUP political clout since 10
years ago!