Block No Longer Sorts by Day's Hits Descending (Except on Referrers Listed Descending)

Upon upgrading to 2.7 I noticed a block I created to sort descending based on the days hits did not do so any more. I can't really tell at all the sort order by looking at it.

One curious thing, when I am on the Referrers page and looking at it based on descending by date (most recent referrals at the top), then the "Today’s Most Viewed" block does sort properly. Curious. This is the page: www.example.com/admin/reports/referrers?sort=desc&order=Last+visit

But on every other page it sorts in some way I can't tell. I have other blocks but they are behaving correctly, some blocks that sort reverse chronological, and a block that sorts based on total number of hits.

So obviously I cleared the View's cache (although I just noticed this particular block is set to not cache) and Drupal caches quite a few times. I also scrapped the sort order from the view, saved, and added it back, just in case there was something goofed up in that regard, but it still didn't fix the problem.

When I look at the view in the Edit page, I see it's not sorting properly, here is the query:

 SELECT node.nid AS nid, 
node.title AS node_title, 
node_counter.daycount AS node_counter_daycount 
FROM node node  
LEFT JOIN node_counter node_counter ON node.nid = node_counter.nid 
WHERE (node.status <> 0) AND (node_counter.daycount > 0)

Here is the view exported:

$view = new view;
$view->name = 'popular_today';
$view->description = 'List of popular nodes today.';
$view->tag = '';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Today’s Most Viewed', 'default');
$handler->override_option('fields', array(
  'title' => array(
    'label' => '',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'html' => 0,
    ),
    'link_to_node' => 1,
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'title',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'title',
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Override',
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'daycount' => array(
    'label' => '',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'html' => 0,
    ),
    'set_precision' => FALSE,
    'precision' => 0,
    'decimal' => '.',
    'separator' => ',',
    'prefix' => '',
    'suffix' => '',
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'daycount',
    'table' => 'node_counter',
    'field' => 'daycount',
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Override',
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('sorts', array(
  'daycount' => array(
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'id' => 'daycount',
    'table' => 'node_counter',
    'field' => 'daycount',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('filters', array(
  'status' => array(
    'operator' => '=',
    'value' => '1',
    'group' => '0',
    'exposed' => FALSE,
    'expose' => array(
      'operator' => FALSE,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'id' => 'status',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'status',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'daycount' => array(
    'operator' => '>',
    'value' => array(
      'value' => '0',
      'min' => '',
      'max' => '',
    ),
    'group' => '0',
    'exposed' => FALSE,
    'expose' => array(
      'operator' => FALSE,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'id' => 'daycount',
    'table' => 'node_counter',
    'field' => 'daycount',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('access', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('cache', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('title', 'Today’s Most Viewed');
$handler->override_option('header_format', '1');
$handler->override_option('header_empty', 0);
$handler->override_option('use_ajax', TRUE);
$handler->override_option('items_per_page', 7);
$handler->override_option('use_pager', 'mini');
$handler->override_option('style_plugin', 'table');
$handler->override_option('style_options', NULL);
$handler->override_option('exposed_block', TRUE);
$handler = $view->new_display('block', 'Block', 'block_1');
$handler->override_option('block_description', '');
$handler->override_option('block_caching', -1);