Editor's note: We polled several friends of the Atlantic Council last week on the question What are the top foreign policy priorities for the next president?   We'll be running their responses all week.

Anna Eliasson Schamis, the Atlantic Council's vice president for development and external relations, appeared this morning on Swedish television (SVT) talking about the American presidential elections.

While the public opinion polls have told us for weeks that Barack Obama is likely to win the longest presidential contest in American history, the voters will finally decide once and for all tomorrow.

The war in Iraq has largely fallen off the table among issues being contested in the presidential election campaign, but America’s “other” war in Afghanistan, has begun to attract more attention, at least in part because of increased U.S. casualties in that theater.

One of the interesting points of contention in last night's vice presidential debate between Delaware Senator Joe Biden and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was on the topic of whether an Iraq-style surge would work in Afghanistan.

When ­American voters get in one of thei­r "change" moods, as demonstrated by the galloping fever for Democratic presidential contender Barack ­Obama, they discount the value of foreign-policy experience in their candidates. -->