I have taken today off and am about to head out to the Maori Chief Hotel in South Melbourne to join ex-pat Americans and interested Aussies to watch the live coverage of the election results!
GOBAMA!
Here's HOPING!!
An editorial in a St Louis newspaper, the Post-Dispatch, which I came upon by chance, is the best summary I've seen to date of WHY we need to elect Barack Obama and Joe Biden!
It is concise, clear, cogent - and it covers it all in a perfectly-ststed way. To me, it says what I would like to be abl;e to express to anyone who asks why I support Obama.
See it at: http://tinyurl.com/6lpjcq
I am trying hard to spread the word to my fellow Americans here in Australia that even if they have not yet received their absentee ballots, they can still vote by sending in a Federal Write-in Ballot. I didn't know about this option myself in the 2000 election, and so missed voting -and look what happened there!!!
I've sent out emails to the group lists of Americans which I know about, and in every case have received at least 5 or 6 replies from people saying "thanks - my ballot hasn't come yet, and I was worried but didn't know I could use this option!"
