Sergio Gor moved to the US from Cospicua in 1999 and appears to have taken the Maltese obsession with politics overseas. With days ticking to the US presidential election on November 4, he is an activist for a group called 'Catholics for McCain' in Washington DC.
US Presidential candidate John McCain enjoys broad support among Maltese-Americans because they are generally hardworking and prosperous and many of them are concerned that Barack Obama will raise taxes, despite his pledges, Mr Gor says.
The Sunday Times sought the views of some of the thousands of Maltese-Americans living in the US, who are determined to have their say on the outcome of the presidential election, which comes at a pivotal time in American history.
Mr Gor, 22, said many staunch Catholics favoured the Republican candidate because he had stronger anti-abortion credentials than his rival.
Mr Obama is the first African-American presidential nominee from a major political party, and Robert Sant-Fournier from Massachusetts believes that race could be an issue for some voters in this election, although he was quick to point out that it can work both ways.
"There is a very subtle, unspoken undertone of racism here in the north (of the US) and I can only imagine that in the Deep South it might be a little more open. But I also feel there are people who intend to vote for Obama solely because he would be the first black president, and people who think this way are ignoring the important issues," he said.
Mr Sant-Fournier is not particularly impressed by either candidate. However, he is disappointed with the current administration's handling of the economy and is not convinced that a new Republican administration can turn the situation around.
Indeed, recent polls indicate that voters have considerably more faith in Mr Obama's ability to handle the economy than Mr McCain and this irks enthusiastic Republican supporter Marija Cilia-Tatlow.
Despite the current economic crisis taking place under a Republican president, Ms Cilia-Tatlow is incredulous that the public would trust a "liberal" Democratic candidate to fix the economy and blames the media for misleading voters on this issue.
Although Mr McCain is not the ideal candidate for Sliema-born Carmelo Collins, he will be voting for him and was heartened by the addition of Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket.
Mr Collins said that Mr Obama's attitude to terrorism reminded him of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s and insisted that the Iraq war "should end honourably. We cannot, in good conscience, just arbitrarily pull out (of Iraq) without any concern for the families and young folks who supported us through this miserable campaign."
Mr Collins' sentiments do not appear to be shared by Maltese-American Maria Zammit, who describes Mr McCain's choice of running mate as a "deeply disturbing" attempt to "shore up the support of the Christian right-wing base at a time when the issues facing our country are critical, serious and extraordinarily complex, and she is far too lightweight to handle it".
Mrs Zammit is acutely critical of the foreign policy of the Bush administration and believes that Mr McCain represents more of the same.
"We need to restore our tattered reputation throughout the world and once more become the country that stands as a beacon of light on the proverbial hill. I sincerely believe that Barack Obama will put us back in the right direction, and I hope that Americans will find their better side to vote for the candidate with the knowledge, the cooperative approach, and the inspirational tools necessary to move the US along a more enlightened path than it has been on for the past eight years."
Mr Obama also seems to be the preferred choice of non-Americans - he was favoured by a four-to-one margin in a recent BBC poll across 22 foreign countries.
However, Andrew Abela, a professor of marketing at the Catholic University of America, does not believe that Mr Obama's popularity overseas will help him at home.
"Any sense that Obama is more popular with foreigners makes him less popular at home. He's running to be our president so why should we care what others think of him?" he remarked.
Many of the 1,700 US citizens who reside in Malta intend to use the absentee ballot system to ensure they are not left out of the democratic process.
When Katia Lee - an American photographer living in Malta - declares that she intends to vote for Mr Obama, it is clear that she is partly motivated by anger at the Bush administration.
"This current administration lied to the nation and its allies, embroiling us in a war stemming from personal agendas, greed, and ignorance that has left the global community with repercussions we will feel for decades. There is hope, perhaps, that Obama can be an agent of change and redress the profligate exploitation of the nation's laws and psyche," she says.
A female American teacher in Malta, who wishes to remain anonymous, also intends to vote for Mr Obama in the hope that he can reverse what she sees as the decline in international opinion of the US caused by the foreign policy of the current administration. However, she is unsure if he will win because she detects "a fear of change" among American voters back home.
While Mr Obama's mantra of change has enjoyed some success among voters, Kenneth Lucas - a committed libertarian and long-time Maltese resident - is convinced that it will be a landslide victory for Mr McCain because the Democrats have chosen too liberal a candidate.