A defeat for the US President and his party in the midterm elections seemed inevitable. But now the question arises whether the “midterms” will be an outlier choice where the models fail.
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Fabian Fellman, Washington
Not football is the national sport in the USA, but statistics. Every throw and every step on the field is measured, everything is entered in tables, converted into quotients and memorized to at least four decimal places. This also applies to politics, which in the USA is sometimes just football by other means anyway.