For those who actually know their politics?
This is NOT a surprise…
Black voters across the country are moderates (which is why Joe Biden still leads the race for the nomination) for the most part and sexuality does pose a problem with them….
Pete Buttigieg would need to get a good amount of the black voter base and it just isn’t gonna happen…
He is NOT gonna be the nominee without inroads with this Democratic base group….
Progressive Democrats maybe all over twitter and the media flavorites …
But moderate Democrats elect the nominee in the end….
The linked piece below has more about Democrats in South Carolina where Joe Biden continues to have a commanding lead even with two other black Democrats in the race…
South Carolina IS going to be Biden’s fire wall against progressives Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders…
Internal focus groups conducted by Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign this summer reveal a key reason why he is struggling with African-American voters: some see his sexuality as a problem.
The 21-page report, conducted by the Benenson Strategy Group with black Democratic South Carolina voters in mid-July and obtained exclusively by McClatchy, found that “being gay was a barrier for these voters, particularly for the men who seemed deeply uncomfortable even discussing it. … [T]heir preference is for his sexuality to not be front and center.”
While the report stated that Buttigieg’s sexuality was not a “disqualifier” for these voters, some of the focus group participants questioned why Buttigieg even brought it up.
“That’s not my thing but I wouldn’t want to know that as a candidate,” said one female participant under 40. “Too much information.”
“I’ll go ahead and say it,” said a male participant. “I don’t like the fact that he threw out there that he lives with his husband.”
Buttigieg, the 37-year old South Bend, Ind., mayor, is openly gay and married to his husband, Chasten. While Democratic elites and donors have celebrated his surprise candidacy, this in-depth survey presents a rare look into the unvarnished views of a major voting bloc in the party and the steep hurdles Buttigieg faces in making inroads with it — an imperative to win the nomination.
We heard the same thing with African American voters and abortion. Yes a lot of black voters are religious and personally opposed to it. But attempts by Republicans or anti choice Democrats (when more of those were around) to make an issue of it has never succeeded.