filed at 3:24 p.m.
Our exclusively online columnist here at The Chronicle, Jacob Wolff, has written today about the election from a place very far from North Carolina: Spain. Though his column is, as usual, a bit more focused on humor than on serious events, his "American abroad" status does offer a unique perspective on today's historic events:
On a serious note though, go vote. When you do vote, think about how there are billions of people out there who are truly less fortunate than you. If I’ve learned anything while I’ve been here in Spain, it’s that this election just might affect the rest of the world more than it will affect many Americans. There are billions of people suffering across the planet every day, and the impact the United States has on these people can’t be understated. So please, when you do vote, I hope you think about which candidate will not only be best for the United States, but also for peace in the rest of the world...
While he does go on to suggest one specific candidate, Wolff does point out something more general that people may tend to forget. The decision citizens of the United States will make today will most certainly have implications around the world. Just what those implications are, though, remains to be be seen.
Catherine Butsch, a writer on our abroad blog, The Reformation of Pangea, also wrote about the U.S. election today. She writes from Paris, France, a place she claims is "just as interested in the Presidential elections as we [Americans] are." Here's a brief excerpt from her post:
At first I was surprised how invested everyone here seems in the election. As I embarrassedly admitted to a friend, most of the time I don’t care about elections in other countries, so why do they care about ours so much? But what Annie said makes sense. If Barack is really “the candidate for change” as he claims, then it’s no wonder that the world’s excited to have him.As for me and the other Americans here, we’ll be staying up through the night to see the results of the election. There’s no way I could sleep through something this important.
We're glad to see that, even when abroad, some Duke students are still interested in the election over here!
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