The more confounding feature of Pete Buttigieg's rise isn’t how poorly he’s doing with black voters, but how well he’s doing with white ones. zakcheneyrice writes
Presidential candidate and former-South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images During Tuesday’s primary debate in Iowa, CNN moderator Abby Phillip asked Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, if he’d considered that his failure to gain traction among black voters was more than a matter of them simply not knowing him well enough. “You say you’ve had trouble earning your support of black voters because you’re unknown,” she said.
Buttigieg responded to Phillips with as much optimism and self-regard as could be expected from a candidate polling so poorly with one of the primary’s crucial demographics. But the moderator’s question touched on a nagging dilemma for several of the contenders — namely, that blaming unfamiliarity for one’s bad polling only applies for so long before other explanations become more convincing.
This suggests less an unequivocal rebuke from the black electorate than a level of skepticism commensurate with the mayor’s perceived strengths and weaknesses in an election where these voters want to be confident that their chosen candidate can defeat President Trump. Accordingly, about half of them have already thrown their weight behind Biden, who spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate and served as second-in-command to the enduringly popular first black president, Barack Obama.
Pair these demerits with the fact that Buttigieg has few substantive relationships with black voters or lawmakers who can vouch for him outside the 100,000-resident municipality of South Bend, and it’s hardly shocking that he’s polling so poorly in a vast field of better-known quantities.
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