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Republicans shift their focus to Asian-American voters
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Feb 10, 2014
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Republicans shift their focus to Asian-American voters
Asian-Americans have made the biggest shift away from the Republican party of any ethnic group.
Election official Henry Tung displays a sheet of 'I Voted' stickers in various languages at a polling station at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Monterey Park, Los Angeles County, on November 6, 2012 in California, as Americans flock to the polls nationwide to decide between President Barack Obama, his Rebuplican challenger Mitt Romney, and a wide range of other issues. Monterey Park is one of six cities in California's 49th Assembly District, the state's first legislative district where Asian-Americans make up the majority of the population.
Election official Henry Tung displays a sheet of 'I Voted' stickers in various languages at a polling station at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Monterey Park, Los Angeles County, on November 6, 2012 in California.
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Asian-Americans have made the biggest shift away from the Republican party of any ethnic group.

Asian-Americans have made the biggest shift away from the Republican party of any ethnic group. 

But the GOP is trying to lure them back and they're doing it from an unusual platform, an alter. 

KPCC's Josie Huang reports.