Olamide Noah, from California, remembers anxiously watching the results of the presidential election two years ago from the United Kingdom. “Obviously, who gets elected has a direct effect on the people I love,” he says. “I have that anxious feeling again, constantly checking the news, seeing where the polls are, to try to predict the outcome.” Daniel Fink, of Philadelphia, says this is the first time he’s lived abroad during an election. “It feels a lot more intense,” he says. “You know your vote is much more important because the absentee ballots, the overseas ballots, are the ones that often end up being counted. “Well, it’s a very interesting feeling.” Kimberly Winberg, from New Jersey, who has lived in the UK for six years, says she finds the division in US politics upsetting. “It’s really sad to be an American living abroad and have people attack each other over what’s in the news,” he says. “I think back to the post-9/11 era and I miss seeing that unity and I hope we can get to that place again.”
