Nate Silver, founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight –
“The […] pitch is a mix of idealism and a shouting anger about the system, but at its heart is a hard-nosed math: He’s the only candidate with a sizable chunk of the electorate that won’t waver, no matter what, so a field that keeps growing and splitting support keeps making things easier.”
As I’m sure you’ve probably guessed, this passage seems like it could be about Donald Trump’s campaign for the Republican nomination in 2016 — but it’s actually about Bernie Sanders’s quest for the Democratic nomination this year.
