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WEITERSDORF<\/b>, Germany<\/strong> — I\u00a0mentioned in an earlier blog post that I\u00a0intended to\u00a0comment on the interest level among Germans in the U.S. election.<\/p>\n

I have a pretty good idea of that interest, based in part on a lovely evening my wife and I spent with our friends and their parents.<\/p>\n

Gerhard\u00a0and Gabi are the parents of Alena, one of our hosts in this village near Nuremberg.<\/p>\n

My sense from both of them — particularly from\u00a0Gerhard — is that, yes, by golly, they are mightily interested in the election we’re about to have back home.<\/p>\n

Do they totally endorse Hillary Rodham Clinton? I didn’t get that from them. Do they totally fear the election of Donald J. Trump? Um, yes, I did get that feeling.<\/p>\n

Gerhard also believes there might be an anti-woman feeling in play in the United States, which could signal a Trump victory in exactly two months.<\/p>\n

I sought to tell him tonight over dinner that I didn’t believe the sexist vote was that<\/em> prevalent back home, that a majority of Americans who bother to vote are going to choose experience and actual knowledge of government over the rhetoric that’s pouring out of Trump’s mouth.<\/p>\n

Gerhard, a lifelong journalist who works in Nuremberg, didn’t quite buy into the notion that Trump is going to lose. Gabi, a homemaker in this lovely and oh, so quiet village — which is about a 10-minute train ride from central Nuremberg — was a bit quieter on the subject.<\/p>\n

If these two fine folks are indicative of German sentiment — and they seem to be mainstream folks who have carved out a\u00a0comfortable mainstream<\/em> life in this rural village — then at least this portion of the rest of the world is watching with great interest in what American voters decide on Nov. 8.<\/p>\n

This is the kind of attention that great nations<\/em> engender — no matter how many times Donald Trump tries to tell us back home that we are no longer a great nation.<\/p>\n\n

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WEITERSDORF, Germany — I\u00a0mentioned in an earlier blog post that I\u00a0intended to\u00a0comment on the interest level among Germans in the U.S. election. I have a pretty good idea of that interest, based in part on a lovely evening my wife and I spent with our friends and their parents. Gerhard\u00a0and Gabi are the parents of … Continue reading Yes, the world takes a keen interest in U.S. elections<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[1424,2140,3688],"class_list":["post-17021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-rodham-clinton","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17026,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17021\/revisions\/17026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}