Is America ready for a gay mayor of a small town to become POTUS?
This is truly the campaign that ought to have no right to exist. But we are in strange times.
For how similar and crowded the field is already, I do like that he has the balls to call out people like Lewk and Pence for their hypocrisy when it comes to their "religion". It's not going to take him anywhere, but it's still nice to see.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
He's having his moment in the sun but is still polling at ~4%. He's more a media-darling than someone who has legitimate support from voters (whether he should is a separate issue). Polls at this stage of the race don't have much predictive power, but Buttigieg would need a lot of things to go his way before he has a real shot at winning.
Hope is the denial of reality
He's rather like Obama. Limited experience of little note, able to make people feel good about vague ideas and able to get the media to ignore rather extreme ideas (like packing the Supreme Court or abolishing the electoral college)
Latest poll is better, 17%. Within 3% of Sanders and 4% of Biden. Outpolling everyone else.
https://medium.com/@ChngRsrch/nation...l-20bd0e69134d
I would take one poll result with a grain of salt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...gh_April_20190, especially when the polling agency responsible for that poll isn't exactly top notch: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/
Hope is the denial of reality
Three other polls have put him on 9, 7 and 9 respectively which given how many candidates there are is significant momentum and more than the 4% you quoted.
Whether he can keep up this momentum remains to be seen but it seems from your own link that he's broken past the 4% mark already.
Crazy thing is Iowa is still 9 months away. Gonna be a looooong primary.