"Super Tuesday" in Thailand

[Gaybutton]

The following appears in the BANGKOK POST:

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Americans in Bangkok Hold Little Super Tuesday

 

Americans eager to select candidates for their next president trooped to the polls on Tuesday morning - in Thailand.

 

About 1,500 US expats were likely to vote at early primary polls in Thailand today. Because of the time difference, they will be voting 12 hours or more ahead of their compatriots in the United States.

 

In Bangkok, the Democrat Party poll was set up at a Starbucks outlet. There are other polls in Chiang Mai, Nong Khai and Udon Thani for members of the Democrat Party, most of whom will be choosing between Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama as their party's next candidate.

 

In the United States, Super Tuesday is the primary - or selection - poll in 22 states simultaneously. It is possible that by Wednesday evening Thailand time, the final candidates for the November 4 presidential election will be known.

 

Registered Republicans in Thailand also will vote, but not at semi-official polls and on the Internet like elections sponsored by Democrats Abroad. Because Republicans Abroad is not an official part of the US party, Republicans will have to vote by mail - a choice also open to Democrats.

 

Overseas voters will be represented at the official, rubber-stamp Democrat Party convention in August, where the presidential candidate will be annointed. Expatriates will have 22 delegates at the convention.

 

The first Americans to vote in Super Tuesday are those in Jakarta. Democrats opened the polls at midnight last night, enthused by the idea that one of the leading candidates, Barack Obama, lived in Jakarta from the age of 6 to 10.

 

"There is a bit of rooting for the hometown boy," said Tristram Perry, the public diplomacy officer at the US Embassy in Jakarta, as more than 100 voters began gathering at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in the bustling capital.

 

"It is the first time someone who grew up in Indonesia is running for president," he said.

 

An early tally at the hotel gave Obama a resounding 75 per cent of the votes to 25 per cent for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

[PattayaMale]

Voters (mostly US contractors) in Iran and Iraq under the protection of US troops voted almost unanimously for John McCain who has vowed to keep the war going until the US spends its last dime and the US economy collapses.

[Guest buaseng]

Voters (mostly US contractors) in Iran and Iraq under the protection of US troops voted almost unanimously for John McCain who has vowed to keep the war going until the US spends its last dime and the US economy collapses.

Why would they do otherwise and bite the hand that feeds them (grossly inflated salaries and allowances) ?

[Guest travelerjim]

CNN's latest polling results from many states

voting on Super Tuesday:

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/03...olls/index.html

 

Many "undecideds" going into the day of voting !

 

 

 

 

[Guest Geezer]

(grossly inflated salaries and allowances) ?

 

Hmmm… Perhaps.

 

I wonder how much it would take to get you to go over and work among all those nice people for one year.

 

[Guest buaseng]

Hmmm… Perhaps.

 

I wonder how much it would take to get you to go over and work among all those nice people for one year.

No Government has enough money to pay me to go work there! Definately a coward in that respect!

 

However for those who are mad and greedy enough to already work there, it is in their financial interest (ignoring their physical well-being) for the war to continue so that they can continue to earn the vast (tax-free) rewards they receive. Therefore, a vote for McCain who is the most vociferous of the candidates for a continuation of the war seems the obvious option for them.

[PattayaMale]

Thanks for the post Gaybutton. It gave me a chance to find the American Abroad web site and get an absentee ballot