Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucus over the weekend, securing his place as the current frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. However, while these results clearly indicate most of the population is behind Bernie, some more centrist Democrats in the media were apparently hoping he wouldn't do so well.
"Pundits across cable news have been freaking out about Bernie's rise," said Late Night host Seth Meyers during Monday's episode. After Bernie's win in New Hampshire, "the story wasn't that he was winning, but that if you use pundit math, he was actually losing."
In this case, "pundit math" referred to the tendency of cable news shows to declare that, if you add together several other candidates' results, Sanders is actually losing. Which, by the way, is not how voting works at all. If two people want to eat at Burger King, two prefer KFC, and three want In-N-Out, that doesn't mean In-N-Out has lost.
"That's right, if you just combine the votes of Buttigieg, Biden, and Klobuchar, you can beat Bernie," said Meyers. "Now all you have to do is find a way to genetically combine them into one candidate called the Klobubuttigbidechar."
