Certainly.

Besides, it's really world politics, anyway. Isn't it?

Because, unlike the president (king? high potentate? grand poobah?) of somewhere like . . . say . . . Cambodia, POTUS (and his/her personal qualities or lack thereof) has potential impact on a large percentage of the human race.

OBTRAV: Not to cast aspersions on the currently-in-progress U.S. national election specifically, but one wonders how the populations of the Imperium at large felt about the ascession and subsequent [mercifully relatively brief] reign of Cleon The Mad? Or the various conveniently-recorded-in-hours/days reigns of the Barracks Emperors?