For Buttigieg, a Search for Black
Support That Never Arrived
New York Times,
by
Reid J. Epstein
&
Trip Gabriel
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
3/1/2020 4:47:32 AM
SUMTER, S.C. — In October, Pete Buttigieg said he would do better with South Carolina’s black voters once they got to know him better.
When he came back in December, he was still working on introducing himself to the black electorate.
And in late January he admitted he was scared that at his rallies in South Carolina, where 60 percent of the Democratic electorate is black, most attendees were white.
Those fears were borne out on Saturday, when Mr. Buttigieg was trounced in South Carolina’s primary and earned just two percent of the vote from African-Americans, according to early exit polling.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 3/1/2020 5:03:58 AM (No. 333348)
In October, Pete Buttigieg said he would do better with South Carolina’s black voters once they got to know him better. The gay ones, maybe...the rest, not so much.
28 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
StormCnter 3/1/2020 5:43:08 AM (No. 333357)
I think Buttigieg would have fared better if he didn't make his gayness the primary reason for a vote. Keep Chas off the stage with the kisses, Pete. That's one step too far for many conservatives.
44 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 3/1/2020 6:33:01 AM (No. 333370)
Folks generally know a weasel when they see one.
50 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 3/1/2020 7:21:57 AM (No. 333387)
He might do better if he wore a glittery outfit and strutted on stage to the tune of "Rhinestone Cowboy"!
21 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 3/1/2020 7:47:43 AM (No. 333398)
He is a fake and the black voters of SC recognized it.
35 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
walcb 3/1/2020 7:47:44 AM (No. 333399)
Get real, people know who Pete Buttigiegegeg is and they are not impressed.
26 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rama41 3/1/2020 7:52:29 AM (No. 333403)
In its analysis, the NYT appears to have overlooked something.
9 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jebediah 3/1/2020 8:16:30 AM (No. 333420)
What galls me the most about Mayor Pete is his new claims of being a military veteran. The man got a cushy deal set out for those with influential ties: no boot camp et al. plus am=n office job well within the safety zone overseas. The most dangerous thing he did was change printer cartridges or, on rare occasions, drive the Brass to a meeting outside the fence but still well within the safety zone. These claims are an insult to those OUTSIDE the zone actually doing the fighting.
32 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 3/1/2020 8:21:54 AM (No. 333427)
Preacher Pete, we hardly knew ye and we're planning to keep it that way.
12 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/1/2020 8:32:37 AM (No. 333440)
Wimpy, little and gay is no way to go through life. Pete should have fixed South Bend before trying to enter the big time.
16 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/1/2020 8:41:16 AM (No. 333449)
I have to guess he got 2 votes from Gay black folks...good Job Buttboy, now go home in shame!
7 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
franq 3/1/2020 8:44:27 AM (No. 333453)
Macho, macho man.
I wanna be a macho man.
5 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Catfur27 3/1/2020 8:48:20 AM (No. 333460)
..the dirty little secret the media won't touch is that - blacks don't like or respect gays .
...if you live in the 'hood the WORST insult someone can throw at you rhymes with "maggot"
....numerous black basketball ( yes - St. Kobe Bryant too) and football players have been fined BIG $$$ for using that term when they get into heated discussions with opponents ...because ... short of punching someone in the face questioning their manhood is the best attack.
18 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Muguy 3/1/2020 9:21:47 AM (No. 333486)
There seems to be a lot of 'phony' "I'm oppressed just like you" sort of game going on here.
Mayor Pete "I'm gay"Buttjudge did not win over the black voters who in the most recent "politically correct" parlance of 'cultural appropriation' did not buy into his campaign which is largely really not much more than "I'm gay". Parading his gayness for all to see, there are still many who are church-going believers who do not like him trying to put them down for holding their own views of disapproval of him.
While Christians are commanded to "love your neighbor" as Christ loved the Church, and are commanded to LOVE their brothers and sisters,and to "Pray for those who despitefully use you", when it comes to voting, they did not vote for him. It was hate, it was their own judgement of opinion that Mayur Pete is NOT suitable to be the President of the United States.
I watched about 30 seconds of his performance at the Demonrat debate, and he immediately went to pandering the black vote as if no other persons were going to vote in the election. In fact, ALL of them did.
The voters in the election saw through this, and the obvious $23 million dollar effort by Steyer to buy them off-- Fauxcahontas was likewise run out of town as well....
9 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 3/1/2020 9:33:46 AM (No. 333494)
Any future gay candidates in the Democrat party will run into the same wall. And even if a gay candidate somehow gets the Democrat nomination, they'll never get the 90% of black turnout needed to win a general election.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 3/1/2020 9:47:50 AM (No. 333507)
Buttie cooked his goose by going out of his way to make it all about his gayness. And smooching some real wet ones on his husband for all to see. Should have kept his preference out of it and off stage.
10 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
OCJim 3/1/2020 9:59:25 AM (No. 333532)
And I had just learned to spell his name.
3 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
chance_232 3/1/2020 10:00:18 AM (No. 333533)
In general, the black community is the least tolerant of gays. I said many many months ago that he wouldn't get the black vote. He wont do well with the Hispanic vote for similar reasons.
4 people like this.
Buttboy would best go back into his bedroom now and CLOSE THE DOOR.
5 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
darnright 3/1/2020 10:39:14 AM (No. 333576)
Poor Judge Booty - We hardly knew ye...
2 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 3/1/2020 10:42:43 AM (No. 333578)
Booty Judge is real popular in Palm Springs where he can find adoration around the clock at all the gay bars on Arenas Street and if he ran for Mayor would win in a landslide. Anywhere else ain't gonna happen. There aren't that many black gays in PS so he doesn't have to worry much about them liking him.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
sanspeur 3/1/2020 10:44:18 AM (No. 333579)
good thing the times didn't ever go into his radical roots . His virulent strain of communism ( erase entire country’s history - then they are easier to control) . There is more to his military past than mere butterbar rank . Supposedly he was involved with struck-stroke-smirk in the ME affairs .
3 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 3/1/2020 11:49:16 AM (No. 333626)
I am wondering how much of Ferret Face's problems stem from the master troller at his SC rally? He said some great stuff about who he considers the real candidates, and I do not recall him mentioning FF's name at all. That had to have hurt. We do not need another flavor of Obama, not after barely surviving 8 years of his presidency.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 3/1/2020 11:51:04 AM (No. 333628)
I for one am glad he isn't hiding his gayness as a previous comment said. I don't want him hiding anything. We don't deserve that, and I know it turns the stomach, but at least we are aware.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 3/1/2020 11:52:14 AM (No. 333630)
So, the homosexual red diaper baby Communist isn't going anywhere? Good news for the country.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Omen55 3/1/2020 12:52:28 PM (No. 333690)
Pete.
They know what you are & they don't want their kids to be what you are.
But you can't call dem out on it because....
2 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
udanja99 3/1/2020 5:22:17 PM (No. 333834)
Yes, #25, we don’t need another 0bama, who hid his homosexuality. Or at least tried to.
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