If you want the short version....

Often it is the view of the acute foreigner that says more about us than we can see or say about ourselves. Thus it was with Alexis de Tocqueville in the 19th century, and, for my money, Alistair Cooke in the 20th. So far, the best foreign insight on the current election belongs to a Dane, from Thomas Litchford's blog:

“We in Denmark cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election.

On one side, you have a bitch who is a lawyer married to a lawyer, or a lawyer who is married to a bitch who is a lawyer.

On the other side, you have a true war hero married to a woman with a very large chest who owns a beer distributorship.

Is there really a contest here?”