World Politics Review reports on perceptions of the U.S. presidential race among people in Afghanistan. Afghans are watching the race closely, Don Duncan reports. Duncan quotes Shoib Najafizada, an Afghan journalist:

“We don’t follow the Chinese election and we don’t know who the new Russian president is because we don’t care. Many people feel as if our own president is being elected because whatever the president of the U.S. wants the president of Afghanistan [Hamid Karzai] will do. I sometimes wonder why America doesn’t install voting booths in Afghanistan so that we can vote too!”

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