[kj] Oliver...............

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

How the US votes is important to the rest of the world because we have 
at least 22 bases on far flung corners of the planet and our globa 
dominance is such that our foreign policy disproportionately impacts in 
distant countries in ways most Americans don't get.

Also, the word  is increasingly becoming a monoform culture, greatly led 
by American cultural, aesthetic, commercial, etc., designs and models. 
There was that "global electorate map" that was only half a joke that 
showed all countries blue for Obama with the US "undecided" between 
McCain and Obama (this was before the election).

-Oliver

LONESTYLE at aol.com wrote:

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> Why do American politics mean so much to you when you don't even live 

> in the states?

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