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Today may just be Election Day for the U.S., but there’s no doubt that America’s elections get the world talking. The front page stories in countries from India to Israel to the Ukraine focus on the final moments of the presidential election. So what about international students, in the midst of the action on U.S. soil, but unable to vote in it? Two writers dissect what it’s like to be here at this time and what students’ home countries think of the election.