Believe me, I understand about feeling disgrunted by one's lack of political options. That's how it's always been for me, until now.

One of the guys who's volunteering here for Dean is an Irish citizen - he's from Dublin, and doing a postdoc in the U.S. He told me he thinks that anything he can do here to influence American voters to defeat Bush will have more of a positive effect on the world than anything he can do with his ballot back home. So you're not the only one who's following this race closely without benefit of citizenship.