Here is an often unreported voting demographic:

A whopping 71 percent of the Vietnamese-American community plans to vote for President Bush in the upcoming election, according to a recent national poll by the multi-ethnic news agency New California Media.

Dan Tran, a member of Vietnamese Americans Against John Kerry, isn’t surprised. Instead he anticipates an even higher percentage, predicting Vietnamese will virtually vote unanimously for Bush.

“I think 90 percent of the Vietnamese in America will vote against Kerry,” he said.

It would seem that to these voters, Kerry's Vietnam service is completely overshadowed by his subsequent protests of the conflict in southeast Asia.

Andrew Lam, an NCM translator who helped conduct the poll, said a key reason for Vietnamese support of Bush is because many of them were born in Vietnam.

“I think part of it is 80 percent of the population are immigrants from overseas. And many of them still remember the Vietnam War and still perceive a strong foreign policy as a way of keeping the world stable,” he said.

As most Vietnamese Americans were from South Vietnam, Lam said many are anti-communists and believe the Republicans are extremely anti-communist.

In turn, Lam added, it’s expected for them to oppose Kerry because of his anti-war attitude during the Vietnam War.

“(Vietnamese immigrants) were basically the losers of the war. They believe that the war protesters in America caused the U.S. to withdraw and lose the war.”

The article also points out that Vietnamese are conservative on issues like gay marriage and perceive a strong foreign policy as a way of keeping the world stable. They make up slightly less than 1 percent of all registered voters.