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Buttigeig is an incedibly gifted speaker and interviewee, and he comes off as sincere and authentic, something a lot of successful politicians aren't even good at anymore.

He's also the same guy he was during the primaries. Don't forget, he went from a guy nobody had ever heard of, whose credentials equaled being the mayor of a relatively small town. And on top of it, being gay.

We did see this guy in the primaries. It's how he made himself into a resasonably competitive candidate, despite all those things, which would normally stop any candidate before they even started.

 

No white person "wins over" black voters. Traditionally, they have made deals with minority kingmakers who deliver those votes when their state primary comes around.

I am not saying that Buttigeig can play that game competitively, and being a gay man may make it even more difficult for him with a lot of black people, but if Joe Biden can get that support when he needed it, I wouldn't be surprised if under the right circumstances Pete Buttigeig could.

Plus, as voters start to skew younger, I think blacks are going be less of a voting block the way they traditionally have been. You see it in the protests, which have had young blacks and whites standing side by side -- it's not as if their values are all that different.