Take Me to Your Leader. An election-year conference looks at U.S. voters and finds anxiety, confusion, and indifference. Something odd happens during years divisible by four.
Time is distorted and compressed.
One day's momentous event becomes trivial and half-forgotten within the span of a few hours. An idea seizes the public imagination, then is abruptly replaced by another, unrelated one. An individual rises out of obscurity, walks the muddy streets of an obscure northern state, appears daily on the front pages of newspapers around the country - and tumbles into irrelevance. Out of such surreal fits and starts we select a president. Nowadays a chorus of fretting voices accompanies this election cacophony.