I am currently in NH with my wife and daughter visiting my mother-in-law or more kindly known as Gran. Gran just got back from Morocco. On her trip she was greeted over and over with Moroccans whispering “Obama?”. She finally started yelling “Obama!”, which would set of a wave that only Hockey rings see up here with a chorus of “obama…obama…obama.”
Now whether you voted for the guy or not, you can be excited that in a place like Morocco that the U.S. President Elect is this popular.
For more read: “For Many Abroad, an Ideal Renewed” from the The New York Times day after coverage.