American citizens that are Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim. Do their votes count?
The thing I believe you are talking about is that they are not broken out as separate groups on published polls. The government has no control over what the pollsters look at but it only make sense that the largest ethnic groups would be listed and the ones you listed would be included in other Black, Latino & white voters are enumerated separately because it is assumed they vote as a block. This is of course untrue. White voters in Bakersfield do not make the same choices as white voters in San Francisco for example, so that a poll that says white voters support one candidate over another are misleading. When we have the electoral college choosing the candidate, the winner of the popular vote may not be final winner as was the case in 2000 when Gore received more votes than Bush at the polls but still lost. Groups that are so small that even if they voted as a block would not affect an election are not broken out in national polls because it gets too complicated for the ‘talking heads
