Americans abroad fired up for fall election

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AP , KLOSTERNEUBURG, AUSTRIA
ADS1 Tuesday, May 18, 2004,Page 6

Rubber ducks scribbled with the names of US Senator John Kerry and US President George W. Bush bob and swirl down a babbling brook in this Vienna suburb.

"Go, John, go!" shouts a group of American expatriates, some using hockey sticks to give the Kerry ducks a helpful slap downstream. Not surprisingly, the Democrat wins by a waterslide.

The Federal Election Commission wouldn't approve. But the Austrian chapter of Democrats Abroad says the mock race achieved its aim: to awaken the 7,000 Americans in Austria to the approaching US presidential election, and get eligible voters to register.

Mindful of the recount fiasco that put Bush in the White House four years ago, Democrats and Republicans everywhere from Hong Kong to Hungary are aggressively targeting American expatriates, whose absentee ballots could prove decisive in a tight race.

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Funny, I've honestly NEVER met an American (or any person as a matter of fact), who supported Bush. To be fair, I'm only one person meeting thousands of people. But if random samples are valid I don't see why it wouldn't hold true for my random meeting of overseas Americans and others.