There was a big political debate showdown in Texas. Clinton accuses Obama of plagiarism, but he calls charge evidence of a “silly season.”

Hillary Rodham Clinton accused presidential rival Barack Obama of political plagiarism Thursday night, but drew boos from a Democratic debate audience when she ridiculed him as the candidate of “change you can Xerox.”

Obama dismissed the charge out of hand, then turned the jeers to applause when he countered, “What we shouldn’t be spending time doing is tearing each other down. We should be spending time lifting the country up.”

As US 2008 Presidential Election becomes more and more important, the votes of Asian American’s are starting to become more significant too.

The top five states where Asian-Americans reside are California, New York, Texas, Hawaii and New Jersey, and all, with the exception of Hawaii, are very significant” in the presidential elections because of the high number of electoral votes each carries.

Asians make five percent of the total population, with 4 million Asian-Americans in the United States. The number of Asian American population is expected to nearly triple in 2050 to 41 million.

It is interesting to note that Asians tend to vote mostly for the Democratic party, in which Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in a neck-and-neck battle to be party flagbearer for the presidential race.