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 In the world of OC Republican politics, one of the great successes has been the ability to build a Republican machine in little Saigon, based on very high levels of chased absentee ballots.
Van Tran was able to capture a Republican primary in the 68th Assembly distict in 2004 with 22,012 votes, in a district with almost 20,000 Vietnamese Republican voters. He was running against a perpetually tardy Clinton delegate turned Republican who didn't have much trust in party circles.
And of course, once Van Tran won a Republican primary, there wasn't much contest in a general election.
Still he's not a prolific vote-getter. In 2008 against an unknown Democrat spending essentially no money, he could only muster 77.5% of the combined total of Republican and Independent voters while Ken Arnold garnered 76.6% of the Democratic and Independent voters. Not much crossover for an established incumbent.
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