Will angry American expats deny Mr Bush a second term?
It is an irony that for US President George W. Bush - who, at the age of 50, had never travelled outside North America, would be voted out of office by a landslide - if the rest of the world could vote. In survey after survey, international polls reveal that as much as 70 per cent of the world would vote against a second term for Mr Bush.
On election eve, he may be the most ostracised American president in history.
Luckily for Mr Bush, non-Americans cannot vote in US elections.
Americans expats can, however, and they registered to do so in record numbers never before seen. And with polls across the US claiming that yesterday's election could be as close as that in 2000, even the smallest clique of voters could turn the tide one way or the other.
Though few US pollsters have considered them, with some seven million Americans living outside the US, the views of American expats could well decide if Mr Bush gets a second chance at the White House.