SamuelRSmith on 23 October 2012
I noticed it at work, and on the trains. Whenever the US elections came up on the news, everybody would stop doing what they were doing, and pay attention. A few weeks ago, there was a boat crash where a number of people perished, there was a scheduled mourning for midday the next day... fewer people paid attention to that than they did the analysis of the US Presidential first debate.
Also, these things have started springing up all over the place. In the UK, I never saw saw one of these for our own elections, let alone the elections of another country... let alone the elections of another country who isn't exactly on the best of terms with my own.
