Despite being Canadian, I care a lot about American Politics. It may not directly affect me very much, but Canada is very integrated with the US in some ways, and much of what affects the US also has a large impact on us, so I certainly care. And the fact that the US is a world superpower capable of deciding many international things that can and will affect us only makes things more important to me.
For example, issues like Net Neutrality, though most likely decided by American courts, can have a huge impact on how Canada will deal with it. As a whole, Canada is more liberal about freedom of the internet and such, but that doesn't mean we decide everything ourselves without looking at any precedents around the world.
And Identifying myself with (to some extent) Social Libertarianism, believing in Individualism and heavy freedom, I will generally tend towards the more liberal candidates anyway. As a Canadian who actually knows what having universal health care is like, I honestly hope you Americans finally smarten up and instate some form of health care above the evil system you have now. There is WAY too much wrong with how that system works.
And I think that maybe the fact that America is able to vote in a Black President means that America is willing to change. And that is definitely a good thing, because at the moment, America is looking like the big bad retard class bully who is always messing with everything and is too stupid to realize that it made a mistake.
I just hope Obama doesn't try to remove American presence from Iraq too early, because if that happens, the country very well could break up, or otherwise deteriorate much further than it already is. What is necessary is a massive rebuilding effort to restabilize the entire country, and an effort to completely wipe out all the insurgents. Of course, getting rid of the insurgents would have been a much less painful job if the boarders had been secured, since a good portion of insurgents are now coming in from neighboring countries.
In any case, I need to stop rambling.