Which major US political party is currently more pro-India?

[TDAS04]

?

[mileslunn]

Probably GOP as they are take harder line on China and India is seen as only country big enough in Asia to be a counter balance to China.  Also Modi too as an added bonus is quite similar to GOP so that helps a lot too.

[OSR stands with Israel]

The GOP and they have been more pro India since the Bush years.

[PSOL]

Democrats and it isn’t close

[Electric Circus]

It's the Republicans, as long as by "pro-India" we really mean pro-BJP.

[TDAS04]

Democrats and it isn’t close

I said “currently.”

[PSOL]

Democrats and it isn’t close

I said “currently.”

Joe Biden’s administration has moved the ball to much closer relations with India, in line with Obama-era disengagement with Pakistan.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Probably the Dems.

[Ferguson97]

The GOP and they have been more pro India since the Bush years.

Then why do a majority of Indians vote Democratic?

[Beet]

In my experience, most Indian Americans experience treatment similar to Arab Americans and even Hindus are often confused for Muslims. This has been the case since 9/11, and Indian Americans are still one of the most Democratic voting blocs with up to 90% identifying as Democratic as recently as a decade ago. However, since Biden refused to call for a cease-fire fire in Gaza, Indian American attitudes may be shifting.

The hardline Hindu nationalist Right is a different story. It has always seen a fellow traveler in Likud, with Kashmir as its "Palestine".
https://prospect.org/world/2023-11-28-israels-brutality-indias-far-right/

[TDAS04]

The GOP and they have been more pro India since the Bush years.

Then why do a majority of Indians vote Democratic?

Why do a majority of Jewish-Americans vote Democratic? Indian-Americans aren’t single-issue voters either.

[OSR stands with Israel]

The GOP and they have been more pro India since the Bush years.

Then why do a majority of Indians vote Democratic?

Cause the vast majority of voters don’t vote based on foreign policy lol and the Democrats aren’t anti India either . Anyway in recent years there has been a shift among Indian Americans to the right but even then it depends on the religious affiliation as well because Hindus have trended more GOP than Atheist and Muslims have .

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/chasing-the-hindu-vote

The data seems to bear that out: Whereas 82% of Muslims in the Carnegie Endowment’s recent Indian American Attitudes Survey said that they planned to vote for President Biden in the 2020 elections, only 67% of Hindus did. Data from the IAAS also appears to bolster Chakrabarti’s characterization of the Hindu American experience as fundamentally an immigrant one.

Also keep in mind only about 54% of Indian-Americans are Hindu so even if there was some correlation to support of Modi leading to Indians trending GOP than it still wouldn’t have much effect .


https://www.statista.com/statistics/1416426/indian-americans-religious-affiliation/#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20survey%20conducted,that%20they%20identified%20as%20Muslim.

[TDAS04]

It really doesn’t have anything to do with India’s domestic politics, or what party controls the Indian government at any given time (at least for Republicans, anyway). Even when the INC was in power, with Manmohan Singh as PM (and Bush was US President) Republicans were quicker than Democrats to warm up to US-India nuclear cooperation, but eventually most Democrats were also pragmatic enough get behind it. The nuclear agreement in 2008 passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, with only 13 Senators (including 0 Republicans) voting “nay.”