Hello, and welcome to the Guardian’s brand new US election newsletter. I moved to the US from the UK as a keen but inexperienced reporter in 2011, and was immediately plunged into covering the 2012 presidential election, despite having next to no knowledge of American politics. After the ignominy of travelling to a Newt Gingrich campaign event and having to ask an audience member who Newt Gingrich was, I decided I needed to learn more. Thirteen years later, much of it spent observing (sometimes open-mouthed) the chaos that goes on here when it’s time to vote, I’m now on my...