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America's Overseas Voters Are Not Impressed
U.S. citizens abroad are not like the ones back home. Example: Issue No. 1 is Fatca.
Super Tuesday, London-style.
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In November 1968 a young Rhodes Scholar by the name of Bill Clinton was "mad as hell," as he told a friend back in Arkansas in a letter penned from Oxford University. Clinton's absentee ballot hadn't arrived in time for him to cast his vote for the Democratic nominee, Hubert Humphrey, who lost to Richard Nixon that year.
Democrats and Republicans had only begun to make some feeble attempts to encourage overseas voters at the time. But the registration process was burdensome and the rules confusing.