[This is long- sorry]
This is my first diary entry, from a student who lives in the UK, and studies politics. I come on here all the time. I don't have any links to the US (except a few friends in Virginia, and a recent trip to New York), and my uni course isn't on American politics. However, and I don't know why, but there is something I find totally absorbing about American politics. I know it will sound weird, but I get just as excited as you all do when, say, Tester storms the Montana Primary, or Jim Webb squeaks a win in Virginia. I follow every facet of US political trivia- the blogs, the fundraising data etc. I was the only one of my 10 or so friends who, when in New York, get excited when I saw an ad from New York's next Governor, Eliot Spitzer, on the hotel TV!
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