Richard - I agree that "who" wins the presidential election will have a mojor effect on us over here, but what is being reported isn't the presidential election. It's elections to see who gets put forward to elections which will eventually decide who are candidates for the real election.
Only the final one that has any REAL significance as far as England is concerned. I don't even know WHEN the presidential election is due, but it isn't for a hell of a long while yet.
As far as I am concerned, it is the day they go to the go to the final polls and start hanging by their chads that it becomes proper NEWS.
So far, it is just Caucus Races, Mock Turtle Soup and Mad Hatter's Tea Parties.

As I said earlier, if Obama doesn't win the nomination, I probably don't need to know ANYTHING about him - same for Clinton, although, obviously she was already known over here.
As it is, the TV has given me more information about Obama than it has about ther new leader of the Liberals in my own country. There seems to be something wrong there.
Quack!
GtD.