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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: bijou on February 21, 2008, 02:04:40 PM
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Barack Obama today scored his 11th straight victory over Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democrat nomination after a convincing win in the "global primary" of Democrats living overseas.
Obama took 66% of the vote to 33% for Clinton after Americans living in more than 160 countries cast their presidential ballots by mail, fax, and Internet during the weeklong primary conducted by Democrats Abroad. His victory was even stronger than average in the UK, where he took 69% of the vote to Clinton's 30%.
The association of Democrats living outside the US reported record turnout for this year's White House race, which has riveted the world's attention to the close contest between Clinton and Obama. 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 coffee shop in Thailand. The results took about a week to tabulate as local committees around the globe gathered ballots.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/21/barackobama.hillaryclinton1
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Voting in the pub! Now THAT's an idea to increase turnout!
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I'm picturing little curtains around each urinal.