King of Kensington
Senior Member
That seems to be my impression -- I think Conservatives target Chinese and South Asians more for potential voters, but it could be just perception based on the suburban GTA.
I've actually wondered how people in the US got those types of statistics-- I didn't know before whether they were based off opinion polls or exit polls, and how they got a representative sample which also reflected race/gender -- perhaps someone surveys you on demographic categories and then ask who you voted for?
Maybe Canadians are just more private about this kind of info -- racial/ethnic questions seem less common more generally on forms and tend to more optional than in the US, I've noticed.
Well Blacks and Hispanics each represent 12-15% of the US population (and Asians are all included as a group) so it's easier to get a good sample size, for one thing. The size of each of these two groups exceeds the population of Canada!