Under normal circumstances, America’s midterm elections tend to elicit shrugs outside the U.S. The world usually focuses on U.S. elections when the president’s name is on the ballot. But if you’re an American overseas these days, you may be quizzed on what will happen in Tuesday’s midterms.
Leslie Vinjamuri, an American political scientist who has lived in London for more than a dozen years, says in the run-up to this year’s midterms, she has been getting questions every day.
“Everybody in the private sector is very interested,” says Vinjamuri, who runs the U.S. and the Americas program at Chatham House, the London think tank.
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