Dems Abroad Has Settled Delegates: Obama Gets 3 More

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pril 21, 2008, 2:17 pm
Dems Abroad Slate Ready for Denver

By Leslie Wayne


With the exception of two superdelegates who have yet to decide, Democrats Abroad, which will send 22 delegates representing 11 votes to the party’s convention in Denver, has settled on its slate of delegates.

Barack Obama has garnered 6.5 delegate votes from the group and Hillary Rodham Clinton has gotten 3.5 votes. Each overseas delegate to the convention gets half a vote. The results from the group’s “Global Convention” were announced Monday.

Democrats Abroad is a wing of the Democratic party, with members in more than 150 countries. And, just as various states in the United States have been holding their primaries in the last few months, this activist group has been holding meetings and primaries around the globe — with votes coming from Ireland, India and even, in the case of one Democrat, from Antarctica.

As a result of the Democratic global primary on Feb. 5 in which nearly 23,000 Democrat expats cast ballots, Mr. Obama initially got three delegate votes and Mrs. Clinton garnered one-and-a-half. This was the first-ever global Democratic primary.

Since then, Americans living in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have met in Brussels to further apportion delegates based on the Feb. 5 results, which gave Mr. Obama 65 percent of the vote and Mrs. Clinton, 32 percent.

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