The real division that the Electoral College creates, in tandem with the winner-take-all rule, is not between large states and small states but between battleground states and what might be called spectator states.
Twitch is a fast-growing live-streaming service that lets people watch and discuss gamers playing online, which is called "spectator gaming .Israel's central bank surprised markets by cutting its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.25%, the lowest in the country's history.
Every Sunday morning (this being Mountain Time) I went to a sports bar called Spectators (two-dollar pitchers!) with a bunch of guys from York, Pennsylvania, in order to watch the ever-aggravating Eagles, of the late Randall Cunningham era.
Sony is also enhancing what it calls the "spectator" experience in enabling people to share their game-playing so that others can watch.
Players earn salaries which the majority can ill afford and agents receive six- and seven-figure sums for making a few phone calls, while spectators are expected to help pay for this via exorbitant prices of admission.
Iran's minister for information and communications technology, Mohammad Hassan Nami, announced this week that his country was developing what he described as an "Islamic Google Earth" to be called Basir (spectator in Farsi) which will be ready for use "within the next four months".
Tasting cannot fairly be called a spectator sport, but there were plenty of curious sounds, a dissonant chorus of slurping and sluicing and spitting, marked by the occasional chime of crystal on crystal and the creaking of wooden floorboards beneath a plush carpet.
Did he call the Spectator's rating a sham?
Lepage's innovation, here and elsewhere, is the melding of cinematic and theatrical techniques that call on spectators to view the performing arts in new ways.
As the game reached halftime, the announcer called for spectators to head to the field and stomp down divots churned up by the galloping animals, as is tradition - but not before a rope was run down the center of the field to keep the V.I.P.'s and the not-so-V.I.P.'s separated.
