>It's like someone's constantly watching the metrics, and every positive blip becomes a candidate for being a talking point. I would add "or negative", and I w

>It's like someone's constantly watching the metrics, and every positive blip becomes a candidate for being a talking point. I would add "or negative", and I wouldn't qualify it with "it's like". As far as I can tell, this is the one-sentence description of how the public face of politics works, everywhere, always.