Many nations see the United States as a standing threat. At the very least, we are potentially dangerous to other nations. Our election matters a great deal, given our wealth combined with our military power. The United States is not similarly threatened by other nations. When you add to that the fact that the United States can meet almost all of its own needs within its own borders, it should be evident why Americans don’t pay much attention to other nations, while other nations care very much what happens in American politics. I do, myself try to keep up with political developments in other nations, but there are more than 200 of them, so it would be hard to know who and what are important in all of the rest of the world.