“Of course you’re going to root for the American team. If anybody said any different,

“Of course you’re going to root for the American team. If anybody said any different, they’d be lying.”

Pennie Doss

A homemaker from Des Moines, Iowa, on whether Americans always root for the U.S. team or if they support individual athletes, regardless of their nationality. Forty-five percent of those polled on the subject in an Associated Press-Ipsos survey disagreed with Doss.

“That would suggest manipulating the process, and I think opens the door to suspicion.”

Jason Mauk

The Ohio Republican Party’s executive director, on what he sees as Democrats taking pleasure with a window in the election calendar that would allow Ohio residents instant gratification — register one minute, vote the next.