While watching the conclusion of several political campaigns around the world, my fascination grows at the rise of the phenomenon of fact-checking the candidates’ statements/speeches.

I conclude that autism spectrum disorder is more widespread than I thought and journalists cannot see that distorting the facts to raise emotional responses is one of, if not the most, important facts of campaigning.

Focus, instead, on the audience response and see if emotional or rational behavior attracts voters more.

Lack of understanding facial/bodily/emotional behavior should be a warning flag to publishers/editors deciding which reporters to assign coverage of political stump speeches.

Purely logical/rational journalists are best for technology/mathematical news coverage and such.

Seeing the three people who agreed that the candidate lied and confirmed their apathy by deciding not to vote vs. the one thousand who voted with their emotions is missing the big picture.