Not only does political coverage often lose the signalโit frequently accentuates the noise.
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.
Voters' memories will fade some.
It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'