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Pete Buttigieg surges to first place in Iowa, new poll shows
2019-11-18
[CNN] There is a new Democratic front-runner in Iowa, and his name is Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, holds a clear lead in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, climbing to 25% in a new CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of likely Iowa caucusgoers. That marks a 16-point increase in support for Buttigieg since the September CNN/DMR poll. This survey comes on the heels of other recent polls that have shown Buttigieg joining the top tier of the Democratic primary race in Iowa.

Behind Buttigieg, there is a close three-way battle for second with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
at 16%, and former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
each at 15%. Since September, Warren dropped six percentage points and Biden slipped five points, while Sanders gained four points.

Posted by:Fred

#12  Can't win the nomination without African-American voters. They won't pull the lever for a Bu-Fu. They're the most socially conservative Dems, by far.
Posted by: Lex    2019-11-18 21:10  

#11  Or Buttigieg sounds the least crazy among a Party of people who are totally bonkers?

You nailed it. Compared to his competitors, Mayor Pete comes off at competent, moderate, patriotic, and sane.
Posted by: Secret Master   2019-11-18 20:33  

#10  The 2017 African American population in Iowa. African Americans constitute 3.8% of the state’s total population.

I blame white (Donk) privilege!
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-11-18 11:33  

#9  Brokeback Prairie
Posted by: Lex    2019-11-18 11:09  

#8  Don't blame Iowans. Look at the guy's competition.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-11-18 10:51  

#7  Right. Why would they poll Republicans? Or moderates?
Posted by: Bobby   2019-11-18 10:21  

#6  They must have limited the polling to Iowa City and downtown Des Moines.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2019-11-18 08:33  

#5  Well, Iowa is cornhole country...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-11-18 08:28  

#4  The polls wrong or are there lot of gay farmers in Iowa? Or Buttigieg sounds the least crazy among a Party of people who are totally bonkers?
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-11-18 07:40  

#3  Trump 2020 it is then.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-11-18 05:48  

#2  In a general election none of these leaders would get more than the base %28 making Mondale look like a great vote attraction.
Posted by: 3dc   2019-11-18 05:43  

#1  Not the first time he's experienced a surge from something pronounced "poll".
Posted by: charger   2019-11-18 00:28  

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