Expats
Will the Clintons' political machine say Democrats Abroad don't matter?
More than 20,000 U.S. citizens living abroad voted in the primary, which ran from Feb. 5 to Feb. 12. Obama won about 65 percent of the vote, according to the results released Thursday.
Voters living in 164 countries cast votes online, while expatriates voted in person in more than 30 countries, at hotels in Australia and Costa Rica, at a pub in Ireland and at a Starbucks in Thailand. The results took about a week to tabulate as local committees around the globe gathered ballots.
"This really gives Americans an opportunity to participate," said Christine Schon Marques, the international chair of Democrats Abroad.
There is no comparable primary among Republicans, though the GOP has several contests this weekend in U.S. territories, including party caucuses in Puerto Rico Sunday.
Of course, like everything else with the democratic Party, the system for calculating the final tally of delegates is screwed up, so we won't know how many pledged delegates will end up behind each candidate :
Expats | Politics | Voting | 2008 Presidential Elections | Barack Obama | Democratic Party | Hillary Clinton | Primaries
