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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

The First Results

posted by on February 5 at 10:47 AM

Obama takes the Democrats Abroad vote in Indonesia:

Seventy five percent of the nearly 100 votes cast by expatriate Americans a minute after midnight Indonesia time (12 p.m. Monday EST) went to Obama. The rest were cast in favor of Clinton, said Arian Ardie, country committee chair for Democrats Abroad.

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1

The Italian system, which has deputies and senators for citizens living abroad, is quite fascinating in its approach to expats.

We, on the other hand, can't even seem to manage to give voting rights to Puerto Rico or representatives to the District of Columbia.

Posted by bma | February 5, 2008 10:54 AM
2

lmao, Indonesia.

Posted by Bellevue Ave | February 5, 2008 10:55 AM
3

DC and PR get delegates.

Posted by Fnarf | February 5, 2008 10:57 AM
4

Expats are almost always progressive - no wonder they left this miserable country.

I can't wait to rejoin their ranks. =P

Posted by Colin | February 5, 2008 11:12 AM
5

Games Over.

We win.

Let't move on to the national election.

Posted by Reality Check | February 5, 2008 11:27 AM
6

@4,

Indonesia's not an improvement.

Posted by keshmeshi | February 5, 2008 11:28 AM
7

I'm looking forward to Sen Clinton getting a similar 75 percent of the NY vote.

What? She says she doesn't expect that?

Why not?

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 5, 2008 11:29 AM
8

@6 Seconded. I'd run to Canada, New Zealand, France, Spain, or Ireland first.

Posted by Gitai | February 5, 2008 11:53 AM
9

That reminds me, have to renew my Canadian passport ...

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 5, 2008 12:26 PM
10

@3

Fnarf he didn't say they didn't get delegates. he said they don't have voting rights. This is true.

They get delegates to the demo national convention and DC (not, I think PR) gets a nonvoting delegate in congress.

Real change would be to fight for representation for DC. Instead of clinging to a 1803 consstitutional amendment that says there can be US citizens with no voice in law making in Congress (if they happen to live in DC).

For the rest of us it would be 2 more Democratic votes on every bill and motion in the Senate.

3/5 of a man was wrong in 1878.

Why is 0/5 of a man any better today?

Posted by unPC | February 5, 2008 1:45 PM
11

Yes, I'm aware of that, unPC, and I agree with you. But we're not talking about voting in Congress today; we're talking about convention delegates.

Posted by Fnarf | February 5, 2008 1:53 PM
12

Are the Republicans gonna chalk this win up to Obama secretly being Muslim again?

Posted by Dougsf | February 5, 2008 6:12 PM

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