Comments on The First Results

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.

lmao, Indonesia.

DC and PR get delegates.

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

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

Games Over.

We win.

Let't move on to the national election.

@4,

Indonesia's not an improvement.

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?

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

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

@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?

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.

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