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Related: About this forumIowans 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 Trumps 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 Buttigiegs 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/
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,181 posts)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!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,070 posts)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.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Celerity
(42,447 posts)who commanded a similarly large crowd when he campaigned there in 2007. Obamas 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.
Buttigiegs 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. Theres 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 youre going to do, its not going to work.
I love that he said that, Lisa West recalled, of Buttigiegs focus on voters, not Trump. Trump thrives on hate, so when we react to him as Democrats because we just cant believe some of the stuff hes 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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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
renate
(13,776 posts)People vote for positive, hopeful candidates, not negative ones.
(Or non-Russians do, anyway.)
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BootinUp
(46,852 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
radical noodle
(7,986 posts)Pete is my choice. Great article.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden