Election campaign

Well... it is really interesting to see the US election campaign first hand. The first major difference between the general elections I saw in Europe is the media coverage. Like many things over here the election campaign and its coverage is big business. And local broadcast stations use this opportunity to present the news as entertaining as possible. For example Fox and CNN are having a 'election center' where they have daily commentaries about how the voters could lean to... that means that like in American Football you have anchormen drawing lines on a computer map while they explain the influence of certain comments on certain regions in America. And how this could effect the general opinion in a state which has effects on states surrounding them and so on. Strategy session for politic fanatics I would summarize it ;-)

Another difference is the culture of bumper stickers which is also new for me. Suddenly you have lots of cars in front of you who are advertising either for Obama or McCain. Really strange is that you also have lots of people driving with anti-advertisement for the other candidate.

A quite interesting campaign so far and I am sure there is more to come!