It's a way to make sense of chaos and generate a narrative to follow, also how millions of individual votes get reduced into large scale trends (gen alpha men w

It's a way to make sense of chaos and generate a narrative to follow, also how millions of individual votes get reduced into large scale trends (gen alpha men want X, Boomer women living in suburbs want Y, etc). People are invested in the outcome and want to know if things are headed in the direction they desire.