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Vox: Asian Americans are seeing unprecedented outreach – but campaigns could still do better

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Vox - Many political campaigns have historically fallen short when it comes to Asian American voter outreach.
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A lack of outreach can also mean that campaigns miss out on how best to serve their AAPI constituents. “The harm is that they don’t know what issues are important to the community, and if they don’t know that, they certainly aren’t going to address that and the community suffers,” says Jerry Vattamala, a director at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. . .

https://www.vox.com/2020/11/3/21540472/asian-american-campaigns-outreach