Well this is something new to me. Rachel Maddow reported on this March 21, 2016 in a short segment with nice graphics but the report wasn’t posted online so I am unable to share it...but..
Here Cenk Uygur reports on it with more information and analysis on upcoming races.
Published on Mar 21, 2016Democrats living abroad had their primary today.
They overwhelmingly chose Bernie Sanders.
Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down.
x YouTube Video Why is this happening Globally?In an Open thread for Night Owls, Meteor Blades posted an article in the ‘Blast from the Past’ section that questioned:
At Daily Kos on this date in 2011—What do all Scandinavians, Belgians and the Dutch have that 52 million Americans don't? Health care:
That's the kind of headline that pisses off Republicans and their enablers. Comparing the good ol' USA with anything...ewwwwwww...European is barely short of treasonous. Of course, if they had an ounce of real pride in their country and compassion for their fellow Americans, they would be irked not by the headline but by its accuracy. What they have instead is an open spigot of cash from corporadoes keen on keeping a health-care system that costs more but delivers less than health-care systems in Europe and Canada.
During 2010, according to the Commonwealth Fund's Biennial Health Insurance Survey released last Tuesday, 52 million Americans—that's the total population of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands—had no health insurance in all or part of the year. In 2001, the number was 38 million. That's a 35 percent increase in a decade when the U.S. population rose only 10 percent.
Not only did all the people in those six countries have health coverage, each of their health-care systems were rated better than America's. Bottom line: They cost less, provide more, cover everybody.
— emphasis added
Why did Dems living abroad vote for Bernie Sanders with a greater than 2 to 1 margin over Hillary Clinton?
After watching Rachel Maddow’s report on the Democrats Abroad Global Primary I posited this comment, @ the Night Owls Blast from the Past, but am curious what else could be happening.
Could it be Universal single payer Health Care (saving $billions on unnecessary insurance cartel profits & undoing Big Pharma’s skyrocketing medication priced protectionism). Trade deals: Nafta, TPP, PNTA, TiSA further threatening the environment & worker protections. The huge American Military budget and a hawkish agenda. War weariness & continued $trillions of dollars spent on endless overseas wars costing 100,000’s of lives with thousands more lost in years to come. Maybe a combination of some or all of these things. Or something else I’ve missed altogether?
Whatever it is, from the Utah victory tonight, to the landslide in Idaho (78% to 21%) that had very high voter turnout just as Bernie Sanders has been telling of its importance for a winning campaign and the needed catalyst that drives not just a single election but the movement for change people have been calling for onward, up and down the ballot ...this is a good thing
As the Idaho Statesman reported earlier tonight, turnout was on pace to exceed previous records set in 2008. Just 30 minutes after doors opened at one caucus in Ada County, the line to get in stretched for three city blocks
Feeling the Bern; Support Grows For Sanders in Indian Country (2/26/16)
March 26 Alaska (D) | Bernie Sanders | Predicted winner March 26 Hawaii (D) | Bernie Sanders | Predicted winner March 26 Washington (D) | Bernie Sanders | Predicted winner
