DAVID MARCUS: In rural Maryland, petty politics takes back seat to World Cup fever

There is a little restaurant here called Henny’s, but I call it the thermometer. In all my travels, this is the best place for me to find out what Americans really care about, which of the machine-gun outrages of the daily news cycle actually saturates.

As I said to Tom, who is retired, lives locally and has a beautiful view of the Appalachians from his deck, which I saw on his phone, "Anything that makes it through the mountain passes to this place is real."

One issue that has made its way is the Save America Act.