The United States presidential election – America's quadrennial chance to showcase to the world how democracy works in the most powerful nation on Earth – has become instead an object lesson in everything that ails a country. CARLOS BARRIA/Reuters Never before has a presidential campaign done so much to directly undermine the United States' core credibility. But watching the election campaign there now makes Indians feel slightly superior," said Shiv Visvanathan, a government professor at OP Jindal Global University. For many on the continent, Obama's election had been a triumph, evidence that American democracy could be a model of liberalism and tolerance. Watching America's presidential campaign stagger from one new low to the next, his expectations sank.

Source: Stuff November 07, 2016 01:44 UTC