Eighty-four percent of French people are ‘satisfied’ with Obama’s victory. In fact, 36% are ‘totally satisfied’, according to an article in Le Monde, reporting on a survey of 1008 people of voting age who were asked their opinion on Wednesday.

In Australia, 75% of people polled in the last few weeks ‘wanted to see the 47 year-old African American become 44th president of the United States,’ according to an article in Melbourne’s Age, written by Michael Gawenda, who was that newspaper’s Washington correspondent from 2005-2007.

Back in Paris, left-wing newspaper Liberation has brought out a special Obama edition with 40 of its 48 pages ‘devoted to the first black president of the United States’. For readers who can’t get to the newspaper kiosks themselves, this and other special editions can be purchased in PDF form over the internet. [Read more →]