USSC Associate Professor David Smith was featured in an article for the Canberra Times on the many Australians closely watching this year's US election unfold.
"For most Australians, in some sense, the US is our second country, even if we've never been there, and that's because we consume so much American media.
"It is very big, there's so much money in it, it's got this big celebrity dimension to it, you've got the possibility of violence and the candidates say and do outlandish things to get attention."
