Obama Wins With Indonesian Democrats Abroad
February 5th, 2008
From the Associated Press:
Sphere: Related ContentUS Democratic Party voters in Indonesia, where Barack Obama spent part of his childhood, handed him a win over Hillary Clinton in the first voting abroad on “Super Tuesday,” party officials said.
Seventy-five percent of nearly 100 votes cast by expatriate Americans just past midnight (1700 GMT Monday) went to Obama and 25 percent went to Clinton, Democrats Abroad officials here said.
Results still need formal verification.
Registered Democrats in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta were the first to vote in person on the day of the US mega-primary, which will select more than half the delegates to the Democratic National Convention in August.
Voting for Democrats living overseas has now also begun and will last until February 12. They will send 22 delegates to the convention at which they will have a combined 11 votes.
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