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Originally posted by Netchicken
These are really interesting answers. We see a sub population apparantly randomly selected from the main population has possibly a signifigent difference in their voting tendancies.
So outside of the pressure cooker, jingoism, propaganda, and hype of the American campaign, people with supposedly the same backgrounds and socialization, are reaching different conclusions as to who should be president.
I deliberatly excluded military personel, as they are often in closed communities, and therefore "small USA's", subject to the same, if not worse, attempts at persuasion than the average citizen.
(Mind you upon reflection the fact that they are NOT in America may mean that it is a self selected, and therefore non random sample. )
[edit on 27-10-2004 by Netchicken]
as mentioned by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
They dont like Bush, but it seems I am not hearing alot of love for kerry either.
Originally posted by Seekerof
as mentioned by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
They dont like Bush, but it seems I am not hearing alot of love for kerry either.
(emphasis my own doing)
Your honesty was refreshing...thank you for it.
seekerof
'm voting for Kerry, with no great belief that he will be a first-rate president. I cringe a little at where Kerry's line on terror and Iraq has lately ended up. I think that Bush, in his rhetoric about democracy and ideologies of hate, has demonstrated a broader understanding of these matters. But Bush has got to be the most ham-handed president in American history. He is incompetent even at expressing whatever is valid in his larger worldview. The prospect of tumbling down the stairs for four more years has got me scared out of my wits. Better Kerry, then.
The tight race between Republican President George W. Bush and his Democratic rival John Kerry is being closely followed by the four to 10 million Americans living overseas. Democratic and Republican activists say they are witnessing record turnouts at their vote drives and rallies
Nancy Bush Ellis, President Bush's aunt, was at the Republican rally in Paris. Like many others, she says the expatriate vote could help determine who wins in November.
"It certainly does make a difference. So many states were close last time, and a few votes made a difference. So they are after every vote they can get," she says.
In only 4 years time, we go from simple homesickness to utter social misery and discomfort.