After what seems like an eternity the race for President is almost over as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have just one day of campaigning left before Tuesdays vote.
While the race is obviously very important, I’m surprised at just how much coverage it’s been given here in the UK, the press seem to be giving it more attention than they gave our own election in 2010.
I’ll say it again the election is obviously very important, I will be watching the results, and I want Obama to win, but what the media in the UK and many others seem to have failed to grasp is, it doesn’t matter what they or I think.
There have been so many stories about how Obama is more popular than Romney in Belgium and Romney is more popular in China etc, why it’s a waste of time, it doesn’t matter and I’m frankly getting bored of it all.
I can’t imagine how unbearable the coverage must be in America itself particularly in states like Ohio where coverage is said to be inescapable.
What makes this so galling from a UK point of view is that we don’t need to cover the US election so extensively and so thoroughly, by all means report on things like the Presidential debates and things like when Romney was caught saying 47% of Americans sponge of the state. (and obviously who wins)
We don’t need story after story, day after day, filled with stat after stat and fact after fact, it’s all getting a bit too much.
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