Five Things You Need to Know About the Election -- BBC

I found this article on the BBC website. I can be found here:

Five Things You Need to Know About the Election, by Tom Geohegan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19729802

This is a fairly small article that touches upon those public spheres mentioned by Poster. Specifically, these are public spheres that are outside the United States.

Geohegan perhaps puts it best when he writes that:

There is huge international interest in who occupies the White House because the actions of a US president have a global impact.

 As an American citizen, it is easy to forget the amount of influence the United States government wields. Thus, it makes sense that people of other nations are going to be watching the Presidential election process. Likewise, the article as a whole is interesting merely because I find any sort of geographically outside perspective supremely fun to look at.

Another great excerpt is the audience (in millions) that Obama's inauguration had:

US: 38m
Germany: 11m
France: 7m
UK: 5m

Germany's viewership by itself is incredible. It outnumbers the entire population of Massachusetts (around 6.5 million).

Finally, the article by itself could probably be of use to many Americans who might feel a bit lost about where to start in looking at the election.