Before the upcoming election, Thomas J. Weissmiller did extensive research on the presidential candidates and decided he liked republican Mitt Romney the best.

Weissmiller's son, SF State international business and Chinese major AJ Weissmiller, 27, listened to his father's arguments. But he not only decided to vote for the same candidate, he got just as involved as his father in the actual campaign.

Weissmiller, a self-proclaimed "language geek," speaks Mandarin and Cantonese. He took it upon himself to visit Chinatown in San Francisco to try to get support for Mitt Romney in the Asian community.

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"I feel like I'm the only one that could do this," said Weissmiller, standing behind his table with Mitt Romney material in Chinatown on Feb. 1, only a few days to Super Tuesday.

"But mostly people are just impressed that a white person is speaking Chinese to them."

Weissmiller's friend, Jessie Fan, 23, joined him to support the campaign in Chinatown. She lives in the Bay Area and knows Weissmiller through church. She wasn't very involved in the campaign but still wanted to show her support.

"Sometimes, I want to separate the candidate from their policies," she said. "Because I like Hillary [Clinton], but not her policy."

Weissmiller voted absentee and spent his Super Tuesday on San Francisco State's campus setting up a table for the republican party on the Malcolm X plaza and also attended a meeting for the republican party.

He expected all the candidates to win in some states after the ballots of Super Tuesday was counted, but he wasn't expecting to get much support for Mitt Romney on campus.

"With San Francisco State being predominantly democrat," he said, "it seems a bit fruitless to stand here."