Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - GenevaLunch, in the two days before the US presidential election, brings you its selection of world media coverage of particular interest to English-speaking people in the Lake Geneva region, including what media in some of our many countries are saying.

Best cartoon: “Obama ahead” by Patrick Chappatte, published in NZZ and GenevaLunch (homepage) 3 November 2008. Note that Chappatte has a collection on the US election, as well as one on the current financial crisis.

Best explanation of the electoral process: “Ne Croyez Pas Que Les Américains Elisent Leur Président Demain,” by Andy Sundberg, founder-member of the non-partisan American Citizens Abroad, in the print version of Le Temps, 3 November 20080. Ed. note: Sundberg, who ran for president from Geneva in 19, was honoured 4 October by ACA with its Eugene Abrams Award for outstanding service to the Americans overseas community. (ne-croyez-pas-que-les-americains, PDF reprinted with permission of the author)

Best article on overseas voters and voting, “Making the Expat Vote Count,” by Jessica Leval, The American, 2 November 2008.

Australian outlook, “Don’t write off the US” looks at whether this is the election of the great American decline, The Australian, 4 November 2008

British voices on the good, the bad and the indifferent others among the 42 men (sorry, no women yet) who have been presidents of the United States: The Times, UK asks a panel of political commentators to vote.

Canadian perspective on the likely winner: he’s northern, he’s urban, he’s liberal and he lived abroad for much of his childhood - forget about the colour issues. The Globe & Mail

Indian angle on what Obama thinks about Kashmir, in a video from the Times of India.

Irish look at the possibility of Democrats having filibuster power for the first time in 30 years, RTE

New Zealand looks inward: the New Zealand Herald is the rare national paper to have no real front page coverage of the US election. A diversion is the story about Hell Pizza apologizing to Sir Edmund Hilary’s family for a pre-Halloween ad that featured his skeleton dancing on a grave. The family of the explorer, who died in December 2007, said they didn’t think it was in good taste.

Pakistan wonders if Obama’s childhood home in Jakarta will really be sold for several million if he wins the election, in a confusing article (did he live in a big airy house, or a humble home with chickens and ducks?) in Jang’s The International News.

Southern Africa ponders, from Kenyans saying an Obama win means hope for development (AllAfrica), while South Africa’s News 24 looks at the technical side of how Americans vote, from touch screens to punch cards.

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