Americans voting in Israel in the U.S. presidential election |
U.S. citizens living in Israel began casting their vote for U.S. president, according to reports.
As many as 50,000 Americans in Israel, began voting for president this week, and the Republican candidate Mitt Romney is expected to win a overwhelming majority of the vote.
Absentee voting precedes the vote in the United States by two weeks. It is estimated that more than 150,000 people in Israel have U.S. citizenship and are eligible to vote. However, a large number includes those who are citizens because they were born in Israel to American parents.
Many of them have no interest in American politics or do not feel any reason to vote in an election in what they consider a foreign country.
Americans abroad generally support the Democratic candidate, but Americans in Israel usually tilt toward Republican, with GOP candidate Sen. John McCain winning a solid majority in the 2008 elections.
The Iranian nuclear threat and President Obama’s hard line position against the Jewish presence in all of Jerusalem and all of Judea and Samaria or West Bank, has convinced many long time Democrats in Israel to support Romney.
The vote probably will have little impact on the outcome of the election.
Votes will be counted in the states where residents lived or voted in the past, about 40 percent in New York, which will definitely be carried by Obama.
California also solidly Obama, followed by New Jersey.
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