The Politico’s Ben Smith is an excellent reporter and blogger. Which makes this post rather rum:
The global interest in the Clinton-Obama contest is really quite amazing. Marc Ambinder finds that they’re talking about Jeremiah Wright on Peruvian TV. And I spent last night talking politics with a Latvian friend who displayed an alarming familiarity with the rules surrounding superdelegates.
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Well, yeah… Then again, perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. In my years in Washington I never ceased to be surprised by the frequency with which folk expressed surprise that people in lil’ old Scotland might be interested in what was happening in US domestic politics. It was a curious sort of myopia.
Then again, many of the people who work on Capitol Hill have no interest in, far less much knowledge, of anything that’s happening overseas (except where vital and obvious US interests may be involved) so perhaps they lacked the imagination to appreciate that the identity of the next American president is a matter of some – make that keen – interest to the rest of the world.
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