Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Democrats Abroad Primary: Bernie is Crushing Hillary [69% vs. 31%]

Dipto Islam, March 8, 2016 


Results of the Democrats Abroad primary so far show an overwhelming win for Bernie and a crushing Defeat for Hillary. The primary started on March 1 and closes today March 8 at 6pm. Bernie Sanders got a jaw-dropping 69% of the votes so far, while Hillary Clinton got only 31%. In 2008, Obama defeated Clinton 66%-33%. It seems that 2008 is back again. The same pattern of 2008 is repeated in 2016.



Bernie Sanders has won all 34of the 34 reported precincts across the globe by wide and big margins:

Provisional Results
Date
Location
Sanders
Clinton
Total
March 1
Canada - Vancouver East Side
88
44
132
Costa Rica - Escazú
20
6
26
Denmark – Copenhagen
160
53
213
France – Grenoble
35
6
41
France – Marseille
31
23
54
Germany – Munich
83
50
133
Guatemala - La Antigua
61
53
114
Ireland – Dublin
98
37
135
Japan – Tokyo
94
14
108
Luxembourg - Luxembourg City
40
25
65
New Zealand – Wellington
21
6
27
Spain – Barcelona
85
36
121
Spain – Madrid
323
107
430
Sweden – Gothenburg
60
20
80
Switzerland – Geneva
112
104
216
Canada - Vancouver West Side
181
65
246
United Kingdom – Cambridge
82
48
130
United Kingdom – Edinburgh
231
62
293
United Kingdom – London
387
243
630
United Kingdom – Oxford
85
49
134
March 2
Costa Rica – Grecia
33
15
48
Thailand – Bangkok
82
55
137
March 3
Costa Rica - Pérez Zeledón
32
3
35
Sweden – Stockholm
69
32
101
Thailand – Pattaya
15
11
26
March 4
Costa Rica – Quepos
23
19
42
France – Paris
141
54
195
France – Toulouse
31
13
44
Thailand – Bangkok
73
32
105
March 5
Costa Rica - San José
22
15
37
Germany - Cologne/Bonn
20
10
30
Ireland – Galway
42
26
68
Spain – Barcelona
169
58
227
Sweden – Stockholm
87
41
128
Switzerland – Zurich
68
44
112
March 6
Japan – Osaka
117
10
127

Overall
3,301 (68.91%)

1,489 (31.09%)

4,790

Bernie Sanders got a jaw-dropping 69% of the votes so far, while Hillary Clinton got only 31%. In 2008, Obama defeated Clinton 66%-33%. It seems that 2008 is back again. The same pattern of 2008 is repeated in 2016.

The 2016 Democrats Abroad Primary counts 13 pledged delegates with full convention voting rights plus 4 Democrats Abroad superdelegate. The full result will be published 2 weeks after March 8.         

Democrats Abroad Delegate count might be small, but the result indicates that most Democrats living abroad think that the country’s direction is wrong in comparison with other countries and it should choose the direction Bernie is showing. The US expatriate have better sense of comparison between the US and rest of the other countries. Their this sense of comparison helps them to analyze whether the country’s direction is better or worse in comparison with other countries. The result might also be indicative of global opinion through the Democrats living abroad. The US expatriates have better practical understanding of the country's foreign policy direction.


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