OBAMA WINS DemocratsAbroad Primary!!

[Eurobabe]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama won the Democrats Abroad global primary in results announced Thursday, giving him 11 straight victories in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The Illinois senator won the primary in which Democrats living in more than 30 countries voted by Internet, mail and in person. The voting took place over the course of a week, beginning Feb. 5.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has not won a nominating contest since Super Tuesday, more than two weeks ago.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CAMPAIGN_DELEGATES?SITE=IACED&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

:woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :applause:

Totals:

Biden 0.1%

Clinton 32.7%

Edwards 0.7%

Kucinich 0.6%

Richardson 0.1%

OBAMA 65.6%

Uncommitted 0.2%

[babylonsister]

1. Hot stuff! Rec'd, and GOBAMA! nt

[Renew Deal]

2. That's awesome. Obama won 65-32

"Barack Obama – 65 percent, Hillary Clinton – 32 percent, with the rest of the candidates pulling in less than 1 percent of the vote each."

That shuold be 9-5 in delegates.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/21/obama-wins-democrats-abroad-contest/

[Scurrilous]

3. That's great news.

:thumbsup:

[CorpGovActivist]

4. That's an under-reported, but important, race.

Why?

American expats are in a unique position to view our politics through a larger prism.

- Dave

[RBInMaine]

5. Oh Yeah !! Kick !

Chalk another one up for HOPE and CHANGE !! (And also for plenty of SPECIFICS, ACTION, EXPERIENCE !!)

[Pirate Smile]

6. Do we know anything about how many delegates are in DA or how they

will be split up?

[Eurobabe]

8. Unfortunately only 2.5 go to Obama and 2 go to Clinton

As usual, leave it to the Democrats to make things way too complicated, from DA Press release:

"These results determine the allocation of 4.5 delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention. Senator Obama won 2.5 delegate votes, and Senator Clinton 2 delegate votes. A further 2.5 votes will be determined at the Democrats Abroad Global Convention in April. In addition, Democrats Abroad holds 4 superdelegate votes. A total of 22 delegates, each with a half vote, will attend the Convention.

http://www.democratsabroad.org/article/2008/02/20/obama-wins-democrats-obama-wins-democrats-abroad-global-primary

[GarbagemanLB]

9. How the hell is there a .5 delegate?

[Occam Bandage]

12. Each DA delegate gets a half vote, so each counts as a half delegate.

[catgirl]

19. Obama will end up with 1 or 2 more delegates

and continue his winning streak, plus get the valuable press from it!

[catgirl]

10. On edit: 7 pledged delegates, 4 unpledged

Each counts as a 1/2 vote at the convention.

[WillyT]

7. Now If We Can Just Get The Rest Of The Democrats Aboard, LOL !!!

:evilgrin:

[Eurobabe]

13. Good one Willy!!

:thumbsup:

All ABOARD!!

[Occam Bandage]

11. 11-0!

[nomorewhopper]

14. wow 11-0

any idea how many ex-pats voted in this election?

btw this represents the mood of the world, who are salivating for an obama presidency

[Yurem2008]

15. According to Hilliani they do not count

[K Gardner]

16. I just jumped up and down and did a little dance ! Thanks for posting ! 65%.. that's his magic

number.. maybe he CAN pull it off in TX, too :-)

Will there be any media coverage of the Vote Abroad? I don't recall EVER seeing it reported in years past.

[MissHoneychurch]

17. Does that include the military vote?

just wondering.

[flor de jasmim]

29. Dems abroad can vote in one of 2 ways...

Either absentee, with a ballot mailed from the States
or
As a "Dem abroad"

Regular absentee votes would be treated along with other absentee votes--voting the second way allows for the awarding of delegates.

[Independent-Voter]

18. Must be all sexist! Damn them. Damn them to Hell!!!!!

[FunkyLeprechaun]

20. YESSS!!

Damn you! I wanted to break this news! :-)

No email from the DA Folks though, but this is great news. I'm so glad he won! I voted for Obama in the DA primary

ZenziC in Birmingham, UK.

[Eurobabe]

22. ur pwnd.

:hi:

[Angela Shelley]

31. Never heard that before, but it sounds progressive.

[Eurobabe]

21. BREAKDOWN by REGION (I am in EMEA: Europe, M.E., Africa region)

[FunkyLeprechaun]

23. I am in EMEA as well

It looks like he absolutely crushed her in the Asia-Pacific region.

He won all the regions though, which is really good!

[Eurobabe]

24. Yeah but the delegate allocation SUCKS

Someone wins by almost 2:1 margin and they get an extra .5 delegates?

I will never even try to understand how the Democrats apportion things :eyes:

[FunkyLeprechaun]

26. Me neither...

And I wonder why the rest get awarded at the convention...

I'm celebrating his win though! :-)

[lapfog_1]

37. Jon Stewart on Larry King last night had a great riff on that

"... and you get a delegate, and YOU get a delegate..."

"your name on the ballot... well here's a delegate for YOU!"

[Adelante]

25. We did it! We did it!

:woohoo:

[Eurobabe]

32. WOOT! I forgot you

were in DA. Good on US!!

[cooolandrew]

27. Most of the world is very pro Obama only Hillarites and evangelists are against him and probably...

not that much even. I think given time we can gain more Hillary supporters. And who knows maybe even evangelists even. He truly is uniting the world it is what the left has always dreamed of.


SI SE PUEDE !!

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[shadowknows69]

28. "This one goes to 11"

[Angela Shelley]

30. Democrats Abroad Rocks!

:toast: :party:

[FrenchieCat]

33. Very, very kewl!

Thanks!

[Eurobabe]

36. I knew we were going to do it!

I just wish the delegate allotment was more fair. 2.5 to 2?

[JimboDem]

34. Thanks for Posting 48percenter.

Congrats fellow Dems Abroad and Barack Obama!
:applause:

[mckeown1128]

35. Gobama!!! nt

[ProSense]

38. A tie in Bosnia

A tie in Bosnia

A reader points out that Democrats Abroad has shared its vote totals which, while representative only of the Democratic-leaning expats in those countries, are still mildly interesting.

Obama won Mexco 57% to 40%; Canada 63% to 36%; Japan 79 18, and France 72% to 27%. He won most European countries by 2-1 margins.

Clinton, for her part, scored a big victory in the Dominican Republican -- 90% to 10% -- and a narrower one in Israel -- 54% to 45%.

Smaller countries are also included: He won 2 votes to 0 in Lithuania; she won by the same margin in Malta.

And as far as Clinton-era flashpoints go, Obama won Rwanda 6 to 0, she won Somalia 1 to 0, and they tied Bosnia 1 to 1.

[Adelante]

39. YAY. Mexico!!

I didn't expect him to win here. :)

[Eurobabe]

40. shameless kick for afternoon eyeballs

[Jennifer C]

41. YES!!!

Way to go World!!!!

:applause: :woohoo:

I knew he would win this.