Exit Polls Show Asian Americans Backed Obama by Wide Margin

Exit Polls Show Asian Americans Backed Obama by Wide Margin: Exit polls suggest Asian Americans overwhelmingly voted for President Barack Obama in Tuesday's election that handed the incumbent Democrat a second term in the White House.

Preliminary national exit poll data suggested that 73 percent of Asian Americans voted for President Obama, while only 26 percent supported his Republican rival, Mitt Romney.

The figures were in line with the voting decisions of other larger U.S. minority groups. Seventy-one percent of Latinos said they supported ...