So last night I, as a student with nothing better to do, I stayed up until 4am GMT watching the BBC's coverage of the American election. And after a long night I can safely say I have no idea why "Four More Years" is such a big deal.
Now I'm not planning to make this a political post, truth is I don't really have enough knowledge of the political landscape in the US of A to do that. But I will say this: judging from the interviews that were aired on the beeb during the wee hours last night, it honestly seemed as though Obama was simply the lesser of two evils. Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware that Romney's campaign was essentially a progression of U-turns and paradigm shifts, and Obama was at least consistent, but still, I can't help but wonder if there might be some people out there in the world with a better political standpoint than either Mitt or Barack themselves.
And even the process itself seems a little bit flawed in America. I know the first-past-the-post system we've got here in the UK really doesn't make sense come election time, but still - how can the actual popular vote have been essentially 0.8% different between the two of them, yet somehow the democrats won by 100ish electoral votes. If you ask me the results look a little bit unfair from where Romney's standing.
I will say this though, it did make for a great couple of hours of television watching "average-Joe" American voters getting drunk in bars across the States.
Matt out.
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