Peter Buttigieg 2020!

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So hes getting a particular niche. But you need more than a niche to win a major primary.

He faces an uphill battle within his own party who isnt having any of that religion stuff right now. The "soul" of christianity rests squarely with the Republican Party right now. My jaw would normally drop when I hear what some pastors say if I werent raised in that environment, but some would say voting for a Democrat right now is tantamount to blaspheming the holy spirit (which means I've been sent to hell a good 5 to 10 times on that alone). How is he going to win a religious vote that follows that? A religious vote whom to the ballpark of 90% vote for Trump?

Then he's got a far less progressive stance on the issues we do know about him and right now the left want a take no prisoners kind of left winger. As it stands, we have half a dozen candidates that are playing that race to the top kind of game. The media uses how much a candidate voted against Trump as a sort of litmus test. That's gonna make it hard for him to get past around 15 percent in primaries. Enough to be top 3 but not enough to be the one.

I like him. Hes in my top 3 choices rn. But realistically unless he embraces his LGBT side more and acts more traditionally aggressive SJW left he has no chance.

Why should a candidate have to act a certain way and try and appeal to certain groups? How about just having their own policies then you vote for what you like?

Kamala Harris & Pete Buttigieg
vs
Bernie Sanders & Stacey Abrams, or bust

I'm speaking on a macro scale. I like what his policies are but if I'm the only one voting for him hes not going to win.

I just saw a piece about him on TV and am favorably impressed. I find it ironic that he cites John F. Kennedy as an inspiration because if you know enough about Kennedy then you will know that Kennedy in fact had some big negatives which would probably deny him the nomination were he running today. The fact that he's a veteran who now wants to take the country in a new direction does resonate, no question about that.

I have this one obsession that I felt that the time had come for a woman President, for reasons I won't try to explain here (this would get me a crapload of downvotes on Reddit BTW). But none of the female candidates have me convinced. For some reason, although I like Harris, I fear she may seem like too much of a Hillary to win. I have a leftist acquaintance who absolutely loves Tulsi Gabbard but I don't see her getting much traction. I saw Stacey Abrams on TV and was impressed, but when I looked her up on Wikipedia I learned that she's heavily in debt (without an exonerating circumstance such as catastrophic illness) and I don't know if I would want somebody who would let that happen in the White House.

He has policies? I wouldn't care if I was the only one voting for someone I really liked.