Arrivederci Silvio! See you in court!

I know what you're saying J, but in a country like Italy where the majority of the media is controlled by one man I daresay that the Italians living abroad are actually better informed about the real political situation than those in Italy itself.

I doubt the Italian media painted the same portrait of Silvio as basically all the foreign media did: that of a fraudulent clown. So I think the foreign voters would indeed vote against him more than Italians themselves.

Besides, Berlusconi has been using all his populist tricks lately. Calling all the Prodi voters assholes on national tv (wtf?) and saying that the "leftist media are controlling the elections". When he OWNS 80% of all mainstream media. It's a typical populist trick, like how Fox News likes to legitimate its far-right agenda by saying that all the other American media are left-wing and biased. And we all know that CNN; NBC and whatnot arescarcely 'leftwing'.

Well you're totally right (of course), but on the other hand international media focusses on the incompetence etc. of one candidate (now with Berlusconi, with the american elections there was Bush of course).
To stay with the american elections: nobody could understand how Bush got re-elected, but on the other hand what did we know about Kerry?
To liberally quote Satis: we had to choose the lesser of 2 evils.

I'm just saying that the flaws of the other candidate are often not mentioned (or just not that frequently) in foreign media. (not that the national media aren't biased as you say)
Of course this doesn't mean that Bush or Berluscino aren't clowns. I have no idea what's the deal with Prodi, i just vaguely remember his name from something in the european commision or something?

Meh, i just remember we're counting down to the world cup.