Let's try an ice cream analogy, shall we?

[DanTex]

Anti-Bernie pundits just won't give up on the lie that "70%" of Dems are against Bernie.

So...let's say we have an ice cream party with 6 flavors. The most popular flavor is, say, vanilla, which is the favorite of 30% of the people. Then comes chocolate with 20, and strawberry with 15, and so on. Does that mean that 70% of the people don't like vanilla? That vanilla fans are some kind of fringe minority? Who on earth would draw that conclusion?

What if we also know that vanilla is the flavor that the largest number of people said they viewed favorably, even if it wasn't their first choice. It's also the flavor that the most people would be satisfied or excited about having. And also most people picked vanilla over any other flavor when given a head-to-head choice. After all that, would any sane person still try to pretend that vanilla was not the favorite flavor?

Oh, and since we're talking ice cream, let's say that four years there was another ice cream party but that time there were only two flavors, vanilla, and pistachio. Between those two, vanilla got 45% and pistachio got 55%. Would anyone in their right mind say that vanilla has had a huge drop in popularity from the two-flavor party four years ago to the six-flavor party today?

Anyone who said any of that would be laughed out of the room. And yet anti-Bernie pundits make those very same arguments, with a straight face, every day. Yeah, it's hard to believe.