NY Times: Democrats Abroad

[La_Serpiente]

Far Across the Oceans, Pools of Voting Democrats

TOKYO, Feb. 8 — The 80 chairs filled up a half-hour before the caucus was to start, as did two dozen more that were hastily brought into the back of the room, and then the chairs along both walls and the window ledges and the aisles in the 20th-floor meeting room overlooking the grounds of the Imperial Palace.

Before long, what the Japan chapter of Democrats Abroad really needed was one of those Tokyo transit workers who cram commuters into rush-hour subway cars.

"We had about 40 people show up for our caucuses in 1996 and 2000," said John McCreery, vice chairman of Democrats Abroad and a 24-year resident of Japan. "We knew there was more interest this year, so we thought we'd get 80 people."

Instead, 156 eager, percolating Democrats showed up Sunday at the meeting room of Tokyo's Foreign Correspondents Club, the great majority of them attending their first overseas caucus and many voting in their first presidential election.

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Far Across the Oceans, Pools of Voting Democrats

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[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Can we register some native Japanese voters?

If Bush can rig the election in Florida, perhaps we can get the large and valuable, billion member Asian voting bloc on our side for this election. :evilgrin:

[glitch]

2. Our district caucus in WA state had 6 times the normal turnout

Man am I hopeful! In Paris 800 instead of the expected 300 people showed up for their caucus. Also from the article: while the ex-pat democrats don't get that many voting delegates, the republicans don't give their ex-pats voting delegates at all.
There are 7 million Americans living outside the country.