My overwhelming impression from watching Buttigieg in Iowa is that he had studied and absorbed the 2008 Obama game tapes. Even the intonation is sometimes identical.https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1226563901220884480 …
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No one seems to have pointed out that a key part of Buttigieg's argument—that as President, he'll deal with Republican intransigence in the Senate by going into their districts to take his argument to more reasonable constituents—was tried by Roosevelt in 1938 and failed utterly
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Several of the candidates seem to have trouble believing that there actually is a populist hard core of the Republican party. They portray polarization as an artifact of D.C. politics. But those voters are very real, and pull their representatives to the right.
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The transformation of Buttigieg from nerdy polyglot progressive to Obama Jr. shows the power of Iowa in shaping Presidential campaigns, even if they have trouble getting the vote in
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I kind of want to see Buttigieg win the nomination, the way in the nature movies you want to see what happens if the orca catches the seal.
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I think you mean the terrier catching the car, if Buttigieg is the active party in the analogy. If he’s the seal, I am right there with you.
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Yes, he is 100% the seal
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