It's election day here in the UK, so the news is covering that pretty heavily. And seeing all that coverage got me thinking about the way I've been getting my news from the election back home.

I watch BBC News, and they have a decent amount of coverage of the US primaries. A lot more than I would expect really, considering it's a foreign country and the real elections aren't until November. But whoever becomes President of the US will be able to seriously affect things all over the world (keep that in mind when deciding who to vote for people!), so people are rightly interested.

But in the end, the BBC is British, so the US elections don't make up a huge portion of their coverage. Domestic issues are always going to be more important to people, and even the international coverage is dependent on the views and interest of the nation. So I get the big stories, but not the little day to day items you'll see in the US.

Yet people keep asking me about the elections, wanting to know details. And I find, somehow, that I often have these details to hand. Things that are a huge deal in US coverage, but haven't really been discussed at all in the UK. And do you know how I have those details?

The Daily Show.

Seriously. I watch the Daily Show now more than I did in the US. Partially because it's on at a more convenient time, and partially because it's the only chance I get to see some of this stuff (other than in online news stories, which yes, I do still read).

I can remember during the last election, people commenting that a lot of young people only got their news from the Daily Show, and Jon Stewart finding that a bit ridiculous. But now I find myself in a similar position. Just like I find most of my knowledge of current US pop culture coming from my Best Week Ever podcasts. The best sources in the world? No, but I take what I can get. And it helps me see how perceptions around the world can vary so greatly just with the amount of information available.