Sanders says progressives are winning the same week he says the party wants them to lose

…(cont) I keep a registration renewal in my glovebox I never throw out, because for about three weeks every year I've got two documents that are both true and both about the same car and they don't agree with each other — the old one says expired, the new one hasn't kicked in, and if a cop pulls me over in that window I've got a real problem explaining which piece of paper is the one that matters. That's not a metaphor I'm reaching for. That's just what's in my glovebox. I mention it because I don't know what you do with two documents about the same race, same day, where one says the party isn't trying hard enough and the other says part of the party might be trying for the other outcome entirely.

So I go back to the date again — and I apologize, I know I already brought it up, but I want to come at it from the other side this time. If a member of a party says, on the same day, in two separate interviews, that the leadership both isn't enthusiastic enough about a nominee and might prefer that nominee lose — is that one complaint stated two ways, or two different complaints? I don't know. I'm not equipped to know that. I just know both pages have August 31 on them.

Then there's the third page, and I want to be careful here because this is the one I keep circling back to without meaning to. Politico, September 6 — that's six days after the other two, I did the math sitting in the car — with Sanders saying the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is winning elections. Six days. Same senator. Same party. On the 31st, the concern on the record was that the establishment wasn't enthusiastic about a progressive nominee, or might prefer he lose. Six days later, the record has the wing that nominee belongs to described as winning.

Was the wing that couldn't get enthusiasm out of its own leadership on August 31 the same wing described as winning on September 6? I checked the party name on all three pages, and it was. Was the nominee gaining anything, losing anything, in those six days in between? I don't have a page that tells me that, so I won't guess at it.

Excuse me, one more thing before you go — I almost let this walk out the door without it, and it's not a big thing. It's just, I noticed something about the way I've been carrying these two printouts. I've had them folded together since the 31st, one on top of the other, and it wasn't until I sat down tonight that I noticed they've got the same date.