I am not the only one who feels the whole world could be at a crossroads right now -  with the result of the US Election probably deciding the course of much more than just income tax levels in down town Idaho.
The implications for the World seem huge - because the possible outcomes seem so different.
Anyway, there are tons of political blogs for this sort of thing.
What interests me is the use of the internet in this election.
There has been a proliferation of internet blogs about this election.
Some are by concerned voters, some are set up us fundraisers for the campaigns and some are even funded and by the parties with a view to disseminating information to voters in a new way.

The internet is also going to be used to cover the elections in a new way.
The Guardian - at the forefront of online journalism as usual - will even be getting its journalists to Tweet using Twitter to keep us up tro date throughout the night. I’d like to  point out that Property Week used Twitter as far back as MIPIM in March

Also, according to AFP more journalists than ever before are descending on the US from around the World to cover this election and they will be “posting Internet photos, videos and blogs” - no more running to the nearest pay phone to dial in your copy - most will be using web-based Content Management Systems to put copy straight onto websites and that same copy will then be used to write tomorrow’s papers.

And that’s where the internet comes into its own - its immediacy. You can Tweet from an election count straight to the Guardian website so that someone in Guildford will know the result of a Key primary before anyone outside the Town Hall i the town itself.

Newspapers cannot compete. They will have the in-depth look at what it all means - not the NEWS itself - which is now almost exclusively to be found online, on TV and on Radio.

I can’t wait to see this election unfold in all its multimedia glory

Listen , I’m not a huge fan of American foreign policy and i do sympathise with the stereotypical view of most Americans as being a little like Middle Age astronomers who thought the spot they were standing on was in fact the centre of the universe - with everything, and everyone revolving around them.

However, i have to say that when it comes to shear watchability you can’t beat Americans. They were made for TV and TV was made for them.

Just when i thought i’d had my fill of caucuses, primaries, presidential nominees and the whole US election… along comes the self-styled Pitbull with Lipstick!!

Sarah Palin - Republican Vice Presidential candidate and John McCain’s running mate - is an internet sensation.

Clips of her are all over blog sites and video aggregators.

She is also the only way the Republicans were ever going to get news coverage in this country which would compete with the reams of press given to their rival Barrack Obama.

Let me round it up for you as much as i have a handle on it so far:

1. She is known by her friends as Sarah Barracuda
2. She fiercely contested reports she had extra-marital relations with a colleague
3. She was forced to put to bed rumours that her baby son, was in fact her grandson.
4. She did so by giving the press her 17-year-old pregnant daughter (who couldn’t be the mother of the baby because she was carrying a child of her own)
5. The 17-year-old daughter’s boyfriend lists himself on MySpace as “a f**@ing redneck” who likes to ”shoot some sh*t” and “doesn’t want kids” - nice bloke i hear you say.

So far the only thing missing is some kind of conspiracy/government control angle

Oh, oh… wait a minute.

Here’s the Redneck, don’t want kids, gun lover up on stage with Pailn’s daughter at a Republican convention and he’s holding her hand and obviously completely happy about it all - and his MySpace site has disappeared!

Awesome.