The unseating of Diana degette and the propagation of that news is the reason US soft power rules supreme.
I just watched many articles and several news channels celebrating the primary win of a 29-year-old young Democrat who unseated a 30-year-old incumbent. Diana degette. As a new immigrant to the United States, I always wondered why around the world countries which are getting bombed by american made bombs, people who are victims of violence around the world look up to United States and US people as their saviors and expect Americans to care for them.
I think it's elections like these and the results like these which show that voters really care about issues which may not directly affect them and are conscious. Despite heavy amount of money and propagandq against them, they care about ideals and values.
I'm not sure if such things happen in the UK,Germany and France or for that matter in other parts of the world like China, Canada, India, Australia. Where despite money and propaganda flowing in favor of issues that do not directly affect the electorate the electorate chooses to do what is ideally and morally the right thing to do.