Buttigieg on his sexuality and black voters: Americans capable of 'moving past old prejudices'

By artappraiser on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 1:22am |

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Pete Buttigieg on his sexuality and black voters: Americans are capable of "moving past old prejudices" https://t.co/72E2ey6iV3 pic.twitter.com/6ZwOGfaouH
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 4, 2019

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NEW from me: How Buttigieg is emerging as the moderate frontrunner in Iowa, even ahead of Biden. He's "smart" and "talented" and can "unite the country," voters there say. But such descriptors wont mean much to black voters, who remain his post-Iowa hurdlehttps://t.co/zHIaf12Iyw
— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) November 4, 2019

and whaddya know, here's an example I just ran across (gosh darn if he isn't a boomer too, not to mention he sounds like one of those "street interview" parodies that The Onion does)

This is 63-year Jim Monson, a self-described independent. He plans to caucus for the first time for @PeteButtigieg in February. “We need someone smart in the office,” he told me. “Let’s try it that way this time.” pic.twitter.com/hsUl8u0sUg
— Adam Wren (@adamwren) November 4, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 4:49am

WaPo's "2020 Campaign" reporters say: Buttigieg drives for the middle ground between Biden, Warren

The South Bend, Ind., mayor has dropped his generational, liberal pitch in favor of presenting himself as the compromise between flawed Democratic messengers.

By Holly Bailey and Amy B Wang from Des Moines, Nov. 4

by artappraiser on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 5:06am

'Just nonsense': Kamala Harris calls narrative that black voters are homophobic a trope

Her comments come after Rep. Jim Clyburn said Pete Buttigieg's sexuality could hurt his popularity.

@ Politico.com, 11/4, 9:21 pm

by artappraiser on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 5:13am

Buttigieg lost support in the black community after his first term in South Bend.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/08/pete-buttigieg-black-voters-support-1395471

He lost appeal locally.

Black support for same sex marriage sits at about 51%

Black Protestant support for same sex marriage is 44%

Republican support for same sex marriage is 44%

White Evangelical Protestant support for same sex marriage is 29%

https://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-gay-marriage/

His main problem may be that he doesn't have many well known black activists who can act as messengers.

Edit to add:

Despite the low support for same sex marriage, blacks vote for Democrats nationally who support same sex marriage. The was backlash when "only" 80% of the black vote went to the Democrats when GW Bush pushing an agenda that banned same-sex marriage, and this 80% was only in Ohio. Blacks in the rest of the country voted for the Democratic Presidential candidate in higher percentages than white voters.

Whites approve of same sex marriage in higher percentages than white voters. Fewer percentages of whites vote for Democrats despite the disparity on same sex marriage. Buttigieg is an unknown in the black community.
As of 10/24, Harris was 4th with 11% and Buttigieg was 5th with 9%. Cory Booker was at 3% in South Carolina

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-d/south-carolina/

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 4:08pm

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