Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Wakey, wakey, coffee is ready!

The graphic this morning comes from the site Compound Interest where UK chemistry teacher, Andy Brunning, has assembled a truly wonderful stack of infographics. If you like it, I'll use more.

Charles Blow looks at Bernie and the black vote.

Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders spoke Saturday to a half empty gymnasium at Benedict College in South Carolina. The school is historically black, but the crowd appeared to be largely white.

This underscores the severe challenge facing the Sanders campaign: African-American voters have yet to fully connect to the man and the message.

An August Gallup Poll found that Hillary Clinton’s favorability among African-Americans was 80 percent while Sanders’ was only 23 percent. A full two-thirds of blacks were unfamiliar with Sanders.

This may sound a bit dismissive, but Blow really wants to like this guy.

There is an earnest, if snappy, aura to Sanders that is laudable and refreshing. One doesn’t sense the stench of ambition or the revolting unctuousness of incessant calculation.

There is an idealistic crusader in the man, possibly to the point of being quixotic, but at least it doesn’t come off as having been corrupted by money or power or the God complex that so often attends those in pursuit of the seat behind the Resolute Desk.

The rest of the article reviews a discussion with Sanders on the issue of his attempt to reach out to African-American voters. Go read it.

Now, grab your coffee and come on in. There are a lot of pundits to cover today...