A country – and houses – divided
Division has dominated the headlines of this US presidential campaign, and nothing shows where alliances lie quite like yard signs.
Philippe Rey, a psychologist living in California originally from Crans-Montana in Valais, Switzerland, has a Hillary Clinton sign displayed outside his San José home.
Tonight, he says he is “going to a party on our street block and watching the results with like-minded friends. In the room with us will be other immigrants, members of the LGBTQQ community and civic and community leaders.”
And Mitzie Moser, a naturalised Swiss living in Atlanta who works as a flight attendant, lives in a house divided: her husband and son are Trump supporters, while she and her daughter support Hillary Clinton.
She says she has: “…hope that the USA can be reunited as a nation after this very divisive campaign. The atmosphere has felt like a huge black cloud has been hovering, I’m ready for it to go away.”
Nick Wenker of Houston, Texas and originally from Zurich says he is worried about violence at polling places because, “this has been the ugliest election season in the 25 years I have lived in America.”
In compliance with the JTI standards
More: SWI swissinfo.ch certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative
You can find an overview of ongoing debates with our journalists here . Please join us!
If you want to start a conversation about a topic raised in this article or want to report factual errors, email us at english@swissinfo.ch.