“I’m here to see how you run an election for the most important elected office in the world,” he told The Daily Caller on Monday. “At the same time I find Huntsman to be an excellent candidate. It’s very easy to support him because I’m a great admirer of the United States. I studied electronic warfare at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California — I’m an army officer by training. Now I have served in Parliament for the last five years.”
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Petterson and his colleague Gustav Blix, who is also traveling around the state, are both belong to Sweeden’s center-right Moderate Party. They describe it as a big tent party that both Huntsman and President Obama would likely be members of if they were Swedish.
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