They underrated him all the way up until voting began, but after the polls showed Biden collapsing after losing Iowa, the 538 model gave Bernie the highest chance of winning the most delegates.
and prior to that, he had low chances. Five Thirty Eight were constantly talking about how Sanders didn't have the backing of the party and that it would come back to bite him in the ass. I'd say they were proven correct. They were calling Biden months before the primary happened as the one candidate most likely to get the party behind them.
They underrated him all the way up until voting began, but after the polls showed Biden collapsing after losing Iowa, the 538 model gave Bernie the highest chance of winning the most delegates.
and prior to that, he had low chances. Five Thirty Eight were constantly talking about how Sanders didn't have the backing of the party and that it would come back to bite him in the ass. I'd say they were proven correct. They were calling Biden months before the primary happened as the one candidate most likely to get the party behind them.
Yeah, they called that Biden was definitely the most likely to have the primary rigged in his favor. But their model was absolutely garbage.