The calendar gets a bit better for Pete after Super Tuesday. March 10 features several western and midwestern states where he might do well if he doesn’t run out of money.
Buttigieg can’t seem to attract minority voters to save his political life. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images You’ve may have heard a lot about the Super Tuesday strategies of candidates like front-runner Bernie Sanders and free-spending Michael Bloomberg. You may be aware that Joe Biden’s in pretty good shape across that 14-state landscape, thanks to his perfect name ID and base among minority voters.
True, unlike Biden and Sanders, Mayor Pete isn’t looking for some pre-Super Tuesday springboard in this weekend’s South Carolina primary. In the most credible late poll of Palmetto State Democrats, from Monmouth, Buttigieg is in a weak fifth place at 6 percent. If he gets any attention on primary night at all, it will probably be to note his continued struggles to secure minority support . And that same problem will hamper him in a number of Super Tuesday states with large minority populations .
Despite a brutal Super Tuesday map unlikely to hand him any statewide wins, the former South Bend mayor is looking to reinforce his claim as a Democratic alternative to Bernie Sanders by racking up delegates in individual congressional districts on Super Tuesday …Buttigieg is focusing on selected districts in smaller media markets throughout the country to rack up delegates, from Austin, Texas and its suburbs to San Diego, northern Maine, and other locales where Democrats flipped House seats in...
Buttigieg doesn’t have the money to compete more broadly across the 14 Super Tuesday states, like Bernie Sanders and especially Mike Bloomberg … He’s not wading into more favorable demographic territory, like Joe Biden in the other Southern states coming up. And he’s not getting the benefit of home-state primaries on March 3 like Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren.
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