Why is it that I spend so much time reading up this 'liberal' blog anyways? What is an Indonesian guy doing watching the circus-like American election? Why should I care who wins what, right?

It's because whatever the result is, it will affect me too. At 2000, I was watching the news constantly for the resolution of Gore v Bush, as my friends chided me: "Why do you invest so much time following US politics? What does that have to do with us?" Unfortunately, the last seven years really affected our country.