What were you doing the day of the US election?  Were you glued to the news and the drama unfolding in the world’s most powerful democracy? The US election has stirred some soul searching in America with some suggesting it was a referendum  on race; others  simply exhausted from four years of chaotic  government. 

In Australia,  some of us were drawn into the drama; others bravely resisted.  Here’s what a few  of my neighbours had to say.