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demmiblue

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Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:21 PM Aug 2019

Iowans Find Emotional Refuge In Pete Buttigieg



Living in a country with a president who thrives on division can be emotionally taxing for Americans seeking a better way forward.

That was the message several voters conveyed over two days of Pete Buttigieg campaign events last week in Southeast Iowa.

“This helps,” said Joan Crowe, of rural Lee County, describing the despair and hopelessness she has felt during President Donald Trump’s administration. “Listening to people talk wisely and kindly, and noticing how many are here a whole year and two-three months before we will vote.”

Crowe was awaiting Buttigieg’s arrival at a park along the Mississippi River in Keokuk. It was the third event of the day for Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.

https://iowastartingline.com/2019/08/17/iowans-find-emotional-refuge-in-pete-buttigieg/
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Iowans Find Emotional Refuge In Pete Buttigieg (Original Post) demmiblue Aug 2019 OP
This is an excellent article! CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2019 #1
A lot of voters, me included, will be attracted to a candidate The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2019 #2
Several Fairfield voters compared Buttigieg's event at the downtown park to that of former president Celerity Aug 2019 #3
I sure hope the DNC continues to listen to advice like Lisa West's renate Aug 2019 #6
I have to root for Pete. Nt BootinUp Aug 2019 #4
This describes exactly why radical noodle Aug 2019 #5
 

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,181 posts)
1. This is an excellent article!
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:31 PM
Aug 2019

Instead of promoting Buttigieg's policy proposals, it talks about how people feel when they hear him talking.

The article gets to his heart and they really enjoy that.

Well worth the few minutes it took to read it.........and no paywall!

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The Velveteen Ocelot

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2. A lot of voters, me included, will be attracted to a candidate
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:34 PM
Aug 2019

who, among other things, seems kind, authentic, and isn't constantly creating chaos and stress. Buttigieg seems especially to have those qualities; so do Biden, Bennett (who probably isn't going anywhere), Warren and Klobuchar. I'm sure all of the candidates are good people but the sort of zen many of us crave seems to be strongest in Buttigieg and Biden. YMMV, of course.

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Celerity

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3. Several Fairfield voters compared Buttigieg's event at the downtown park to that of former president
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:38 PM
Aug 2019

who commanded a similarly large crowd when he campaigned there in 2007. Obama’s crowd was larger, the voters recalled, but no one other than Buttigieg has come within striking distance.

“I really like Mayor Pete,” said Lisa West, as she packed up her lawn chair after the Fairfield event. “He just stands for the values that we have, which is people first, not money, getting corporate interests out of government — all the basics. We need to take our country back. As a people, we need to be more active in the political structure, and he sounds like somebody who knows that.”

Buttigieg’s resistance to dwelling on Trump appealed to West and her husband, John.

“You got to restrain yourself from giving him the attention that he is seeking,” said John West, of Fairfield. “There’s no question we got to get him out of there, but if you put too much focus on the negative and not the positive and the policies and plans that you’re going to do, it’s not going to work.”

“I love that he said that,” Lisa West recalled, of Buttigieg’s focus on voters, not Trump. “Trump thrives on hate, so when we react to him as Democrats because we just can’t believe some of the stuff he’s doing, it just feeds him. We need to just cut that out, refocus away from him and focus on the issues that are important to us.”

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renate

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6. I sure hope the DNC continues to listen to advice like Lisa West's
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 02:29 PM
Aug 2019

People vote for positive, hopeful candidates, not negative ones.

(Or non-Russians do, anyway.)

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BootinUp

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4. I have to root for Pete. Nt
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:50 PM
Aug 2019
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radical noodle

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5. This describes exactly why
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 01:37 PM
Aug 2019

Pete is my choice. Great article.

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