John McCain

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Relative to examinations of African American and Latino voters, Asian Americans have been overlooked. However, given that both Senators John McCain and Barack Obama have ties to Asian communities and the increasing influence of the Asian American vote, more attention is being paid. Christopher Beam in Slate examines the history of invisibility, some of the new investigations and points to the likely increased influence of Asian American voters in the future:

In a conference call with bloggers this evening, New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said she was "taken aback" by Sen. John McCain's endorsement of her proposal to create a government agency to buy up and refinance mortgages in foreclosure during last night's presidential debate with Sen. Barack Obama.

Race continues to be a factor in the presidential campaign this year and in recent weeks has been raised as an issue in ways that have led observers to analyze the issue through historical lenses. Nicholas Kristof, in an Op-Ed in the New York Times noted that there was a "push to 'otherize' Obama." Kristof describes some of the forms this otherization is taking:

I love CNN's Campbell Brown. I think she is smart, agressive, not afraid to ask probing questions and I have followed her career for years. But I became even more enthralled with her when last night she basically tore a new one in the American public butt about racism.