The Misunderstanding of Momentum

When people say a particular candidate has momentum, what they are implying is that present trends are likely to perpetuate themselves into the future. There's just one problem with this. It has no particular tendency toward being true.

Source: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/the-misunderstanding-of-momentum/

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