Yeast infection.

Totally non-sarcastic observation re the last:

It was a claim I made (along with Nevada) to someone who was convinced that Sanders would win every-single post-NH contest, which would take place starting with Super Tuesday in March.

I agree on scary. This is a country in which we do get to elect people, and you can accomplish things via electing people who think your way and crafting legislation a majority will pass. The reasoning (whatever your political flavor) that your inability to convince anything close to 50% of the electorate to go along…

There was a poll in which she had more "very enthusiastic" supporters than Bernie. Enthusiasm can take forms other than big rallies and Facebook likes. I really think a lot of this election is explained by people convinced that their friend circle is representative of a silent majority of 50% + 1 of the electorate.…

He's already not sure whether this is anywhere near as arousing in real-life as it is as an abstract fantasy; the test could add whole new layers to his angst and all the ways she's doing it wrong. I also think "that stuff I told you for years that I wanted, that it was so important to me, begging you to reassure and…

Use the spiders dangling over a flame thing.

Pff. Just have him stand next to the bad guy, and his luck will rub off.

I imagine he returns in a blaze of Samaritan-befuddling glory in the next two eps.

I really liked it for both a long-held finale hope—the people they saved in the past return the favor—and an answer to what about all the people who are in danger yet don't live in NYC.

The first demonstration of what "with the endorsement of Donald Trump" can mean for you in an election.

"I think I'll vote in the Democratic primary, even though I have other stuff I could be doing. There are only two candidates. Oh well, no need to find out a thing about them."

Welcome to elections.

What part of "a little less than half the liberals in America isn't anywhere near enough to get elected" is supposed to strike people as surprising?

If you want to change the system, get in there after the elections and start arguing for 2018/20. (It of course helps if you are a member of the given party, and politically active in it. Sometimes arcane systems have good reasons for their rules; sometimes they are just what remains after a massive paper mache party…

Sad!

THERE WAS A BIRD.

They shouldn't be. The sensible way to report the Democratic numbers is pledged delegates only, because barring an Edwards-level scandal the Supers will vote for the winner of pledged delegates and popular vote.

It's an open convention. (i.e. No one has the votes to win on the first ballot.) Jim Gilmore takes it all on the 17th ballot.

If we include books, To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis.