The wonks keep getting it wrong: Keep an eye out for lazy arguments and bad analysis in tonight’s primaries

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders (Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder/AP/Keith Srakocic/Photo montage by Salon)
This election has been a disaster for those peddling proprietary models for predicting our political future and has nurtured what I hope will be a healthy distrust of wonktocracy down the road. But we have not yet excised wonk language from our vocabulary. Among the most misused terms in circulation is “demographics,” which analysts have turned on its explanatory head so as to sugg