Some politics is as far away as Wyoming

 We were in San Francisco, talking about the political situation in the US, and how different it is here from there, there being a place like Wyoming with which I'm familiar or Memphis, Tennessee where Adele was born and raised, or Wisconsin where David  comes from.

I told them that the last time I voted I voted in Wapiti, Wyoming in a one-room schoolhouse near the cabin. The register was handwritten. When I signed in I could see the list of names--there were about 50--and political affiliations. I was the only Democrat as far as I could see. When the lady who was manning the polling place handed me my ballot she said, "here's our Democrat" in a voice as loud as a river.

The point is that people's political sensibilities are very different in places like Wyoming, which explains how a candidate like Mitt Romney might have a chance to win against an incumbent like Barack Obama, as incredible as that might be. And that the Republican Party even has a constituency as large as it is, considering its platform and the very odd candidates it musters up to run for office in its name.

And that one can be as out of touch in San Francisco as one can be in Wyoming with what's happening in the rest of the country.