Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/obamas-election-win-stirs-worldwide-reactions Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript The 2008 U.S. presidential election drew strong interest overseas and Barack Obama's victory stirred reactions around the world. Simon Marks offers insight on the global thoughts on, and expectations for, the Obama administration. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. RAY SUAREZ: When NewsHour special correspondent Simon Marks is not reporting and producing for us, he runs a news service that provides stories to broadcast stations all over the world, and their interest in every bit of news on the U.S. election has been intense.Simon, thanks for joining us. SIMON MARKS, NewsHour Special Correspondent: You're welcome, Ray. RAY SUAREZ: Did you detect all along a greater hunger from your clients for news of this political season and now its aftermath? SIMON MARKS: I think without question. I mean, we've seen that throughout the year. We saw a much greater intensity of interest in the primary process than we've witnessed before; that has continued all the way through the election and beyond, into the transition.You could physically see it around Washington. As you know, there are several technical facilities here in town that specialize in the provision of cameras and satellites to foreign broadcasters. I visited several of them over the last few days.And some of them have been like refugee camps, with foreign broadcasters camped out in the corridors, sucking down every available piece of Internet bandwidth trying to get their stories out.