Here's a stunning piece of information for the U.S. media: Not all Americans live in America. Some, in fact, live in crazy-ass places like Germany. While living in said crazy-ass places, Americans still have the right to vote, even for president. That means--for all you reporters who thought you were being so clever with your quips about the number of electoral votes in Germany (kein!) following the crowds of 200,000 or more who showed up to see Barack Obama in Berlin--that some of the people in that crowd just might have been Americans living in Germany or some other country nearby. Or they could have been traveling around the world and just timed a visit to Berlin fortuitously.
At any given time, four to seven million Americans live overseas. It's not a small number. If they were to vote in large numbers, it could make a real difference in the presidential contest. Is that why Obama went to Europe? Probably not. But he's a citizen of the world enough to know that expat votes would be a nice side effect. Somehow I'm thinking that John McCain--who apparently seems unable to remember that Czechoslovakia hasn't existed for some 15 years now--is less aware of that possibility.
I'm just saying.