It was noon in Britain: several thousand miles to the west Americans were waking up to Super Tuesday, an historic day in what is an historic contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, a contest that has excited the attention of the world, Will Pavia writes.
But precisely how excited were Britons on their lunchbreaks today, at the prospect of over 20 American states delivering their Democratic and Republican presidential nominations? Very excited, mildly interested, or, in the words of one elderly lady, “regretting the fact that those people was ever given independence”? Did they realise it was Super Tuesday at all?
Times Online took to the streets to gauge the precise temperature of British election fever.