The pundit class continues to misunderstand Bernie Sanders - and it shows

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50. Nice Try At Deflecting

Since you just accused one of the longest-serving sitting United States senators of lying to the press, lying to his throngs of supporters and committing a felony by lying to the Federal Election Commission, let's shoot for the moon.

Here are the facts:

1) In the same calendar period of 2015, Bernie's average donation was $27. This year, he raised more than during the same period last cycle even with a much larger field of candidates and at $18 a clip. Dismiss this if you like. The working class donors who could have used that money to pay bills know how much it means.

2) No matter HOW the donations are itemized, Sanders outraised Biden, the nominal frontrunner, by $10 million, significantly more than the margin between the two during the previous calendar quarter. Dismiss that if you can! $10 million! If that doesn't spell "candidate in decline", I don't know what would. If he were in decline, surely he would not have raised as much as the former VP.

Since you consider the fundraising numbers moot, let's focus on another stubborn fact:

3) His army of volunteers made 1 million calls in under 9 days to close September and open October. That has precisely NOTHING to do with this fundraising numbers. Could a candidate in decline pull that off in such short order?