I would beg all of you to read a non-US news website regularly. You could do worse than the economist and the BBC.
Watching the way the rest of the world sees the US makes it a little easier to see the inanity of so much US political news coverage. (And likewise that of any other country's local political news, as covered by outside sources).
Indeed, I tuned into CNN's live feed around when Ohio was getting called, and I was welcomed by first a few minutes of nonstop ads (for CNN no less), then a room full of people having "deep thoughts" about nothing in particular. This is the station I watched, riveted, during the first iraq war?! Sad.
Watching the way the rest of the world sees the US makes it a little easier to see the inanity of so much US political news coverage. (And likewise that of any other country's local political news, as covered by outside sources).