There are at least 105,000 US citizens in my city.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

http://overseasdigest.com/amcit_nu2.htm

A little over 10% of the total population of Calgary. That's a hell of a lot of voters to reach.

There are 200,000 US citizens in Vancouver
- 250,000 in Toronto
- 65,000 in Montreal
- 40,000 in Halifax
- 55,000 in Sydney, AU
- 38,000 in Melbourne, AU
- 35,000 in Brussels
- 75,000 in Paris
- 140,000 in Frankfurt
- 45,000 in Munich
- 65,000 in Athens
- 47,000 in Dublin
- 76,000 in Jerusalem
- 72,000 in Naples
- 40,000 in Rome
- 37,000 in Florence
- 45,000 in Tokyo
- 30,000 in Seoul
- 440,000 in Mexico City
- 111,000 in Guadalajara
- 64,000 in Ciudad Juarez
- 196,000 in Tijuana
- 81,000 in Hermosillo
- 61,000 in Matamoros
- 49,000 in Merida
- 24,000 in Amsterdam
- 15,000 in Auckland
- 15,000 in Oslo
- 20,000 in Panama City
- 105,000 in Manila
- 21,000 in Warsaw
- 18,000 in Krakow
- 76,000 in Madrid
- 18,000 in Barcelona
- 18,000 in Stockholm
- 16,500 in Bangkok
- 200,000 in London
- 20,000 in Edinburgh

That (and it's not all on the list) is a hell of a lot of voters.

[Lovecrafty]

1. Voters not subject to US propaganda saturation too!!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. There's an estimated four million US voters in large centres overseas.

How do we exploit this? I know there's Democrats Abroad, but is there anything DU can do?

[Lovecrafty]

5. Not sure..depends on how much they like where they are at!

You say your from Canada correct? How is the healthcare system there FOR REAL! We are told here in America socialized healthcare doesn't work..that people often die in overcrowded hospital waiting rooms because they can't get prompt and effective treatment. Is this true?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Not particularly. Of course, there will sometimes be queues,

but no more than you'd find in any system with a finite number of Doctors. Our Medicare works out cheaper than the US system, too. It works well enough. Not that it couldn't take some work, but then, what system couldn't?

[Lovecrafty]

11. Well there is a waiting time in ALL hospitals!! Thats isn't so bad!

And I'm sure life-threatening cases have priority, just like here in the States! They are not going to make a snake bite victim fill out ten pages of forms and sit in the waiting room for an hour to see a doctor! NO hospital would do that! But we are constantly being told here in America about the ineffectiveness of socialized health care...but I imagine all that is coming from HMO's and the Drug Industry to keep us paying through the nose for their services!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

13. Corporate interests will fight to maintain their market position of course

[blondeatlast]

10. I've been there--if it's serious, you're in as fast, if not faster,

than here in the US. Less paperwork, for one thing. Triage works the same way there as it does here.

The horror stories are just that. Stories.

[enigmatic]

3. And big chunk of them in Edmonton, too...

And I'm one of them..

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. Yeah. I didn't see any figures for Edmonton.

But if it's over 100k in Calgary, it's got to be at least 50k in Edmonton too.

[enigmatic]

8. 30-50,000 here...

and I'm not the only one voting by absentee ballot for Kerry...

One more thing, I hate the Edmonton Eskimos and root for the Saskatchewan Roghriders instead; I know what going againstb the grain means;)

[tuvor]

9. A shout-out to the old hometown!

From Courtenay, BC!

EDIT: Whattaya mean, you hate the Esks?!
:o

[enigmatic]

12. LOL!

I grew up in Cleveland and am a fanatical Browns, Indians, and Cavs fan; I just never warmed up to the Esks. The Roughriders were the first team I rooted for in the CFL when I was a kid and got the CFL games across the Lake on CBC, and I was a huge fan of the old style uni's and logo. In fact, I'm wearing a retro Roughriders logo cap right now!

[tuvor]

14. And what ever made you move to Edmonton?

Not the weather, that's for sure!

After 30 years of frozen tundra, my West Coast wife hauled me out here. Hard to complain when the family back in St. Albert tells me about the minus 30 highs.

[enigmatic]

17. My wife!

She's Canadian and a hottie, so it wasn't a hard choice..

[blondeatlast]

7. And they are reflected in the current polling, aren't they?

They just adore our current foreign policy, don't they?

This is the best news I've heard in a while.

Thanks!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. Kick for perspective.

[blondeatlast]

16. As an Arizonan, I have to laugh at seeing the Mexico numbers.

Legal US citizens in Mexico must outnumber border-crossers 2:1; and guess which group pays more taxes as a proportion of their income?!

Still, this is excellent news. Even if 40% of them are bushbots, which I sincerely doubt, the numbers are good for us.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

18. And they don't show up on polls.