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How Presidential Elections Turned into Fantasy Basketball

The media used to talk about presidential candidates in terms of “front runners.” But in this campaign cycle, the new measure of choice is “upside,” a term used in fantasy sports to describe a player’s “maximum fantasy output.” In other words, the best performance they could hypothetically offer in a game. This week we’re breaking down how the culture of fantasy sports has infiltrated media coverage of presidential politics, and the ways in which the media treat the democratic process as a form of low-risk entertainment. Music via Epidemic Sound Hashed Out is part of Complexly’s first ever pilot season! Check out our other pilots: History Pop:    / historypop   Stories Retold:    / storiesretold   Complexly:    / complexly   REFERENCES Calling elections : the history of horse-race journalism https://www.worldcat.org/title/callin... Polling FAQ https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp201... Butterworth, Journal of Communication 64 (2014) 895–914 Nate Silver, The Signal and The Noise, 2012 Read President Obama’s remarks at the Gridiron Dinner https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t... Nate Silver appears on 'The Daily Show' https://ew.com/article/2012/11/08/nat... The ‘Nate Silver effect’ on political journalism: Gatecrashers, gatekeepers, and changing newsroom practices around coverage of public opinion polls https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/... FiveThirtyEight’s Pollster Ratings https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/... Consumer Demand for Election News: The Horserace Sells https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1046/... Metaphors! Metaphors We Think With: The Role of Metaphor in Reasoning https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art... The war on prevention: bellicose cancer metaphors hurt (some) prevention intentions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2... Metaphorically Speaking, Men Are Expected to be Struck by Genius, Women to Nurture It https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/sc... Experiencing Physical Warmth Promotes Interpersonal Warmth https://science.sciencemag.org/conten... Light Bulbs or Seeds? How Metaphors for Ideas Influence Judgments About Genius https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/... Metaphors for the War (or Race) against Climate Change https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1... Disgust as Embodied Moral Judgment https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... With a clean conscience: cleanliness reduces the severity of moral judgment https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...