Last Tuesday, a panel of foreign journalists spoke about how they felt their countries would vote in the United States Presidential election. This article from Lehigh's Brown & White highlights the general feeling of the panalists. Basically, if the world could vote, they would vote for Obama. Many foreigners believe that Obama has a better approach to foreign policy: he sees the world as countries needing to work together. A representative from Russia stated that Palin was a joke and that many Russians feel McCain would worsen the foreign policy situation.
Foreign interest in American politics is overwhelming considering many Americans have little interest in politics most of the time. In addition, a large majority of Americans are completely unaware of anything involving foreign policy and international politics. This video has nothing really to do with the election, but does show just how uneducated some Americans are. Being a superpower helps to explain why many people from other countries are so interested in American politics.
Obama's popularity has created high expectations from other countries and even people in the United States. If he is elected, he will be expected to make big changes. People are easily disappointed, and if he fails in the eyes of foreign ambassadors, other countries will continued to feel disgruntled toward the U.S. and our politics.
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I found your post to be very interesting. I had not had the opportunity to move past Election Day and think about the big question of if Obama is elected, and fails to institute this "change" or atleast a beneficial change, what will the Obama bandwagon do? People have vested so much hope into this man and if he does fail (although it probably would have to be miserably for people to see any "wrong"), I am wondering to whom Americans will look?
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