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Let's put it this way... Legolas Send a noteboard - 28/06/2016 07:02:14 PM

View original postI know you're dealing with your own issues (Brexit), but I was wondering if the upcoming presidential election in the United States is receiving any attention.

Take your average American newspaper, and look at the amount of news on all foreign countries put together. Then double that. That'll give you an idea of how much attention European newspapers devote to the American presidential election - just about every single day. I may be exaggerating, but not by much.

Also, I like how you suggest Britain is not part of Europe...

View original postWhat do you think of our two candidates (Clinton and Trump)?

View original postIs there a consensus in your country as to who would make a better president?

Uh. Yes. Keep in mind that most people abroad are either unaware or just uninterested about the things that a large group of Americans dislikes or downright hates about Hillary - whereas Trump's failings are impossible to miss, and seeing how he goes out of his way to insult other countries every chance he gets, foreigners are even less likely than Americans to forgive them.

Much like with Brexit, a vote for Trump is, in essence, a vote for 'I don't know what I want but I know it ain't this' - nobody knows what casting such a vote will actually do since there is no plan or strategy or vision behind either Trump's campaign or the Brexit's, but the people doing so are so fed up with the current establishment that they are willing to take that risk. Or they've deluded themselves into thinking that their personal interpretation of the campaign is the correct one, and all the people who view something entirely different in it are wrong. I suppose some of them will be proven right in the end, but most won't.

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A couple questions for those of you living in Europe, Britian, anywhere but the U.S. - 28/06/2016 04:21:50 AM 867 Views
It was. We're busy squacking at each other, currently. - 28/06/2016 01:39:04 PM 604 Views
Let's put it this way... - 28/06/2016 07:02:14 PM 640 Views
How can you say there is no vision behind Trump's campaign ? - 29/06/2016 09:44:37 AM 583 Views
The problem is Trump is the vision behind the Trump campaign *NM* - 01/07/2016 04:12:44 PM 288 Views
You have a power hungry right wing maniac - 05/07/2016 12:15:48 AM 656 Views
Thank you all for posting. Enlightening stuff. *NM* - 14/07/2016 07:26:29 AM 287 Views

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