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01 Mar 2020, 7:23 pm

Pete Buttigieg has called it quits after minimal support in South Carolina.

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01 Mar 2020, 7:41 pm

high high hopes ran out.

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01 Mar 2020, 7:52 pm

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01 Mar 2020, 8:28 pm

I blame the religious right.

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01 Mar 2020, 8:48 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:

I blame the religious right.

I'd blame his inability to articulate a vision for the future. Running on 'but I'm not Trump' isn't enough to gain support, not when there's better candidates.

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01 Mar 2020, 9:21 pm

His track record as mayor of South Bend didn't help either...

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01 Mar 2020, 9:58 pm

I have no idea why he didn't resonate and I'm sure it's for a variety of reasons. I didn't like his uber-orator delivery. It bugged me a lot actually.

"I will replace the evil Trump."
"I envision a world after Trump's presidency and I want you and I to make that happen."
"I'm better than Trump because I'm not him."
"Trump is damaging this nation almost beyond repair. I want to stop that and I will."

No question messages like the above resonate with a percentage of people in the U.S.

>The problem is, what if a person doesn't think Trump is the devil incarnate even if they don't like him?
>What if a person's overall life experience (employment, food, shelter, finance, quality of life) since 2016 hasn't been bad and certainly not horrible?

The candidates that are running on that premise think the average person feels like they do. I think fewer people feel the way that such candidates think they do. I think we're starting to find that out now.

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01 Mar 2020, 10:24 pm

I said early on too much emphasis on Trump and not enough emphasis on themselves and what they have to offer was going to sink them. Hillary made that same mistake.

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02 Mar 2020, 1:43 am

He got way further than any other openly gay candidate for President.

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02 Mar 2020, 2:21 am

Actually the last time I saw him being interviewed (in Iowa) he was "positioning" himself in a clever way: as the one who wants change, but not too radical change: "I am not as old fashioned as Biden, but not as far out as Sanders" ( not his exact words, but that was the idea). Which is pretty good marketing. But it was too little, too late.

And they ALL cant be POTUS, nor even the nominee. There has to be attrition. You cant read too much meaning into it.

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02 Mar 2020, 2:34 am

Slightly surprised that of all the promising young (or young-ish) moderates, he and Klobuchar were the ones who lasted the longest.

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02 Mar 2020, 2:53 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:

high high hopes ran out.

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