Election

"Are you happy now?" He asked
"Much happier" I replied
For the last few weeks every conversation had drifted at some point to the American election. I over heard Bar tenders at county bar discussing it, a group of Brits outside the great hall were talking about Palin and Obama. People of all ages and all nationalities were discussing the American election. Any American I talked to agreed that if the next presidency goes to McCain we were not going to leave England. But now, it was finally over and I, along with the rest of England, most of the world, and about 53% of the US was relieved that the new American president was not going to be John McCain. We were not going to have any more years of Bush like policies. Although, almost everyone I talked to agreed that Obama will not be able to keep all of the promises he made, they believe that if anyone could make changes to the US it would be him. So we all celebrated. Most of the people I know stayed up till 4am on that Tuesday, the world wanted to know who America was going to choose. It felt weird that people from so many other countries knew and cared so much about American politics. Many admitted that they knew very little about English politics and lots about American poitics. And at 4am on that Tuesday we all rejoiced. For the next few days it wasn't so taboo to be American, it didn't feel as wrong to talk to people with an American accent, people congradulated us instead of punishing us. Everything changed and all because the newspapers said that Obama was the projected winner.