In 2014, the place I was working for got slapped with a huge list of things to fix by the federal government (and for good reason) and told to come up with a plan for approval.
The company came up with a plan. The EPA sent it back like "WTF, 90% of this is totally inadequate, and the remaining 10% is mostly inadequate".
The Chief Asshole Officer or whatever the fuck his title was called a meeting for the whole company. "Good news! The EPA thinks that our plan isn't TOTALLY inadequate! 10% of it was kinda-sorta not an utter failure!"
I keep thinking of this when I read news that's like "if you combine Biden, Klobuchar, and Buttigieg's polling numbers, they're more popular than Sanders OR Warren! Democrats want a moderate candidate!"