Learn Math, the Sanders Way!

Nobody ever said you had to be able to count to serve in Congress.

Good thing, too, if the e-mail press release from Charles W. Sanders' campaign is any indication.

Sanjay Mahajan, campaign aide to Sanders in his many attempts to get elected to the U.S. House, sent out a release touting the endorsement of Highland County Democratic chairwoman Dinah Phillips in Friday's special Democratic congressional primary.

With "major endorsements" in Highland and Clinton counties, Mahajan said, Sanders is confident he will win both counties "which compose 50% of the counties in the district," and, thus, win Friday's special primary.

Indeed, there are four counties in the the 3rd Congressional District (most of Montgomery and part of Warren are the other two); and two is defintely 50% of four.

What the Sanders campaign seems to have missed, though, is that Highland and Clinton counties together made up only 10% of the votes cast in the May Democratic congressional primary - a primary in which Sanders finished second.

No less than 81% of the Democratic votes in May came from Montgomery County - where the county party and Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin have endorsed Sanders' opponent in Friday's primary, former assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Chema.

50% of the counties. 10% of the vote.

But who's counting?