During my time in Indiana and elsewhere, I would run into bloggers and supposed journalists at post-primary "watch parties", where they tapped away at their laptops and tried to figure out whether this or that pollster had been on the money.
For me the jumping off point was watching the Republican primaries, watching Michelle Bachman, Rick Santorum, and asking what would it be like to have a theocracy in America – which is way more terrifying than any fictional monster could ever be.
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Cover image: Virginia gubernatorial candidate Corey Stewart speaks at his primary election watch party in Woodbridge, VA on June 13 , 2017
Mr. Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, finished a disappointing fourth in New Hampshire's primary after watching the momentum from his surprising performance in Iowa – where he finished just 8 votes behind Mitt Romney – fizzle away quickly.
Several months before the primary, I watched over an hour of his ads and interviews on a reel.
In the 20 mothers in the study, all primary caregivers, watching their babies triggered heightened activity in the brain's emotion-processing regions, particularly in a structure called the amygdala, which was five times more active than at baseline.
During the Democratic primary, women watched in amazement that morphed into disgust, as Hillary Clinton was subtly and not so subtly bashed relentlessly by the media for the sin of being female.
Some primary school children – watch them outside almost any schools – feel really quite affectionate towards the crossing patrol who is often an older, quasi-grandparental figure.
