Clearly Americans are ill informed as a group.  The political/international class, maybe 10%, is reasonably well-informed however. They are suffering.

It is telling that the term precarite seems to have jumped the Atlantic of late.  An interesting development.

The worldwide interest in this election has to do with momentum.  If Sarkozy is defeated, so are the globalists.  The left has less to lose but far more to gain from victory.  The right seeks to merely delay.