As a voting bloc, Americans outside of the U.S. are easily overlooked
n one of the final days of the U.S. midterm campaign, nearly a dozen Americans gathered in a small classroom at the London School of Economics in the British capital’s bustling center and started hitting the phones. Their pop-up campaign office—which was outfitted with American flag bunting, “VoteFromAbroad.org” banners, and trays of cookies and chocolates to fuel the evening—was one of many that had been hastily constructed over the previous month by the U.K.
These Americans are an ocean away from the political fray in Washington. But as far as many of these organizers are concerned, they have just as much of a responsibility to get involved ahead of the Nov. 8 vote. That’s because hundreds of thousands of overseas Americans across more than 180 countries turned out during the 2020 U.S. presidential election, enough to make a difference in some states.
“Half of our membership votes in battleground states,” says Elizabeth Kelly, the treasurer of Democrats Abroad U.K. “All of those races where FiveThirtyEight is saying it’s too close to call—we are targeting them.”
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