A pretty hilarious use of resources: manually counting the number of individuals in campaign rally crowds because the campaigns keep going back and forth about whose is bigger. "Despite the limited connection between crowd size and election outcomes, the very public sparring between the two campaigns over the metric indicates that it at the very least carries some political significance." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/07/us/politics/harris-trump-rally-crowds-size.html