“Since Senator Bernie Sanders handily won the Democratic Nevada caucuses with 46.8% of the vote, pundits across cable news have been freaking out about Bernie’s rise. It’s an ongoing trend – looking back on Sanders’ popular vote wins in Iowa and the New Hampshire primary, the story wasn’t that he was winning, but that if you use pundit math, he was actually losing. Some cable news outlets declared that Amy Klobuchar’s third-place finish in New Hampshire or Pete Buttigieg’s close second in Iowa as the ‘real’ story. That’s right, by winning states, Bernie is actually losing ground. You see, as all expert pundits know, you don’t want to win the first two – that’s a rookie mistake, where you come off as needy or as the kids would say, thirsty. You want to throw everyone off by losing a bunch of states, playing it cool, off to the side until someone finally says ‘who’s that fellow with zero delegates?’” —Seth Meyers
“The reality is most actual voters don’t think like pundits – they don’t divide candidates into a so-called liberal lane and a moderate lane. Voters like each candidate for their own reason, he argued. They like Bernie for his consistency on issues like healthcare, they like Warren for taking on big fights against special interests like Wall Street, they like Biden for his eight years as Obama’s VP, they like Buttigieg for his youthful charm and charisma, they like Klobuchar for her record in the Senate, and they like Bloomberg because he pays people to like him.” —Seth Meyers
“A magisterial collection. An emotional roller coaster. Soon to be a cult classic.
A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night On Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”
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