Dealing with anti-gay demonstrations is “part of the good, bad, ugly and odd that can come out,” Pete Buttigieg told POLITICO
Dealing with anti-gay demonstrations is “part of the good, bad, ugly and odd that can come out,” Buttigieg told POLITICO in an interview, noting that he’s dealt with protesters before but “the costumes were new” to him. “There’s always going to be stuff like this when you become a top-tier contender, and we need to be prepared to manage that sort of thing.”
Buttigieg’s candidacy measures the distance American voters have traveled on LGBT rights. Just over a decade ago, none of the top three 2008 Democratic primary presidential candidates supported same-sex marriage. In 2006, 43 percent of Americans said they would feel enthusiastic or comfortable about a candidate who was gay or lesbian. In April, 70 percent said they’d be enthusiastic or comfortable in a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.
poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201904/2818/1155968404_6027102577001_6027105483001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"That possibility worries Jeanette Melhuish, a 61-year-old Democrat who saw Buttigieg in Marshalltown on Wednesday morning, because “there are some older Democrats and older independents that won’t vote for him” for “the fact that he’s gay,” she said. “I see that as his biggest obstacle, but I hope he overcomes it.
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