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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Election 2008 The First Results

Posted by Eli Sanders on Tue, Feb 5 at 11:35 AM

Obama takes the Democrats Abroad vote in Indonesia:

Seventy five percent of the nearly 100 votes cast by expatriate Americans a minute after midnight Indonesia time (12 p.m. Monday EST) went to Obama. The rest were cast in favor of Clinton, said Arian Ardie, country committee chair for Democrats Abroad.

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Obama has been getting nonstop coverage in the Indonesian press for months, with other candidates barely mentioned.

There is a Youtube-like video site, tv.detik.com, with multiple videos of his elementary school in the Menteng Dalam district of South Jakarta, and a very entertaining video of his childhood Jakarta bedroom and bathroom, with present and former owners swearing that they haven't changed a thing since he lived there. The baby at the end is the future resident of the childhood bedroom of the next US president.

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