Posted on 05/03/2008 7:04:55 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
7 votes!
I would say....THIS WAS A LANDSLIDE FOR OBAMA. That will be the song and battle cry of the modern media.
Yeah, great intellectual reasons for voting for someone!/sheesh
Typical dim voter!
7 votes over Clinton that classic well I know Guam is small LOLOLOL!
“U.S. citizens on the island, however, have no vote in the November election.”
What is that supposed to mean? All US citizens can vote no matter where in the world they are and have gotten a ballot in.
This surprises me - with Obama having spent much of his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, it seems to me Democrats in the Pacific region would support him overwhelmingly.
I think it means, if you claim Guam residency, you cannot vote in the General Election.
However, those stationed there by the military, can vote via their home state.
They are US nationals and eligible for a US passport.
But, as residents of a territory, rather than a state, they have no voting rights in federal elections.
In addition, this proves Operation Chaos is a failure since not enough Guamainians switched parties to make Clinton successful. Limbaugh's influence is obviously fading.
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Well, shock of shocks, the article was imprecisely written.
Any US citizen anywhere in the world can vote, assuming s/he got a proper ballot and sent it in on time. My daughter voted from Japan and from England when she lived abroad at the time of US elections.
The wheels have come off. Two months ago Obama would have won Guam by 20%.
Agreed.
Neither did Alaska and Hawaii before they became states. Consequently, their residents couldn't vote in a federal election either.
A citizen who claims residence in a territory cannot vote in a federal election. A citizen who claims residence in a state may vote from anywhere in the world.
Nope, if you are a citizen, but a legal resident of a US territory, rather than one of the several states or the District of Columbia, you don’t get to vote in the Presidential election, since your territory has no electoral votes.
8 votes?
8 votes.
But here is how the article was written:
“U.S. citizens on the island, however, have no vote in the November election”
It doesn’t specify Guam residents, just “U.S. citizens.”
Are natives of Guam (or Puerto Rico) US Citizens? If I move to Guam, I can’t vote for POTUS? So, like so many do in DC, just don’t register there, keep voter registration in a state? (DC has electoral votes now, but no Senator or Representative, so folks who can keep active registrations ‘back home.’)
Is this setting up for the kinds of questions that surround McCain’t ‘natural born citizen’ status should a person from Guam or Puerto RIco end up running for POTUS one day?
It is a poorly worded sentence by our correspondent, probably a product of inferior public education. What they really meant was that US Citizens (nationals) who are residents of Guam have no voting rights in the federal election.
It is a poorly worded sentence by our correspondent, probably a product of inferior public education. What they really meant was that US Citizens (nationals) who are residents of Guam have no voting rights in the federal election.
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