A handful of progressive activists wants to deliver the overseas vote to the Vermont senator. Can they keep the caucus together?
Anya van Wagtendonk is a reporter and multimedia producer based in Brooklyn.
A mix of long-time progressive activists and relative newcomers to France’s storied expat community, this group sees the Sanders candidacy as an opportunity to promote a political structure back home that more closely resembles the one they live under abroad.
in voter registration and ballot requests, Bryan says. Civilian and military voter participation abroad, regardless of party, increased by 50 percent between the 2014 and 2018 midterms, according to theIf any candidate has an edge with the overseas vote, at this point it’s likely Sanders, who wonof the Democrats Abroad delegates in contention last cycle, to Hillary Clinton’s seven.
The group’s efforts, nonetheless, offer a window into the idiosyncratic, often overlooked world of American political activity abroad—and the challenges of reaching a set of largely disengaged expat voters that ranges from students to members of the military, missionaries to businesspeople. France for Bernie is meeting regularly to strategize and is in the early stages of voter outreach.
At the parade’s start, the mood was festive. Cramer stood on a street corner and handed out an excerpt of a speech that Sanders had given about May Day, translated into French. “he shouted—a good protest! Many passersby took the flyers; some stopped to chat; a handful shouted back, “Feel the Bern!” Which was surprising: The people taking the papers couldn’t vote. They wouldn’t even learn about France for Bernie from the handouts; they would just learn a bit more about Sanders himself.
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