The election has reached its final days, and people are ready to cast their votes and see who our next president will be.
There are plenty of supporters of both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton who believe there’s no way the other candidate will win. But as many more polls showed Clinton ahead, more of those calls have been directed at Trump.
In fact, FiveThirtyEight, a news site that compiles data on politics, economics and sports, has Trump’s current chances of winning the election at 33 percent. Those are the highest odds in his favor since September; his low point was on Oct. 17 with only a 12 percent chance of beating Clinton.
But for those who still think a Clinton victory is a sure thing, not so fast. FiveThirtyEight had a prediction on the Chicago Cubs’ path to victory in the World Series, and it was significantly worse than Trump’s chances.
After Chicago lost game four to Cleveland, who then led the series 3-1, FiveThirtyEight gave the Cubs only a 15 percent chance of winning the World Series. Given that the Cubs won the Series Wednesday night, now people are using that model to point to the possibility of a Trump win.