I remember when Nate Silver used to clown pundits and say "I'm just focused on data/numbers, I don't know or care about other shyt." Then he signed a major deal with ABC, 538 expanded and suddenly he was an expert on everything (remember his laughable covid hot takes?). I thought other "numbers guys" would avoid that pitfall but they followed him over the cliff. I like Wasserman overall but it's obvious he was wrong. Nothing wrong with being wrong...but when you're wrong based on such obvious bullshyt it deserves criticism. The media narrative decided democrats would be clobbered, ignored all signs that said otherwise, and let that color everything else. Fetterman was obviously ahead in that PA race, the mail ballots clearly secured his win and yet these idiots spent weeks hyping junk polls that showed a tied race.
Nobody wants that 2016-type egg on their race again when it comes to democrats. Yet they'll make similar mistakes for republicans and wave it off. Even in 2018 I remember certain people claiming "oh the polls are wrong, dems will barely take the house" lol. Based on what?