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Ahead of Super Tuesday - the day when 24 US states decide on their preferred candidate for the Presidency - BBC World Service and Chicago Public Radio presented a major debate on the big election issues live from Chicago on Saturday 2 February.
Election 2008: America's Decision - Your Business came from the Jim And Kay Mabie Performance Studio of Chicago Public Radio.
Presented by the BBC's Claire Bolderson and Richard Steele from Chicago Public Radio, the debate saw four select studio guests and their audience focus on the global economy and foreign policy, internal debate in the US, and the impact on the rest of the world.
The panellists were Tom Bevan, editor of the website RealClearPolitics; professor Jean Bethke Elshtain of the University of Chicago; Laura Washington of the Chicago Sun-Times; and professor Daniel Drezner of the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
Ahead of the debate, our correspondents asked people in some of the countries with a key interest in US foreign policy what they hoped to see a new president do once they come to power.
Watch See what people from Israel, Venezuela, India, Japan and Egypt think of the US election
The Panellists