Joan Didion wrote an article in the 1980's titled "Insider Baseball" who made an analogy between reporting on elections and reporting on the going-on in baseball locker rooms. Typical election journalism gives the ready the illusion that they're getting an inside view, but ultimately the voter is disenfranchised because the story isn't about the voter's choice, it's about the campaigns.

I remember an Issac Asimov story about a future where only one person had to vote, because, based on that person's vote, a supercomputer could predict who would have won the election. That's the strange future of 538. Politics is no longer the art of the possible, it's just like betting on sports.