Pete Buttigieg

Want to get the pulse of the music business? That's what Bob Lefsetz's newsletter does. Tonight's guest post is one he did for his blog over the weekend: Buttigieg, which is the alternative name many people call Mayo Pete. He began with a link to a New York Times piece: Buttigieg Struggles to Square Transparency With Lack of Disclosure on Consulting.

In 2016, Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes went to Trump. He bear Hillary in a fairly solid blue state 1,405,284 (47.22%) to 1,382,538 (46.45%). That's 22,746 votes. Participation in black neighborhoods in Milwaukee was way off. Voters didn't switch the Trump they just stayed home. What happened? Were people so sure Hillary would win that they didn't both to show up?

If the Democratic primary is about picking the slickest, smoothest liar, there's no contest. Well... Status Quo Joe is certainly the biggest liar among Democrats, but Mayo Pete is the slickest and smoothest. That's what working as a McKinsey consultant teaches you.

A week old thing, but I thought readers of The Duran might like it.
Tulsi Gabbard vs Pete Buttigieg in the latest Dem debate.

I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible … except by getting off his back.
— Leo Tolstoy, Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence, 1886

Mayo has the best p.r. operation of any of the campaigns-- and has had that going for him for years. It's how much a total nothing has wound up on the debate stage with actual leaders.

Henry Gomez, reporting for BuzzFeed News, noted yesterday that a pretty major piece of Mayo Pete’s very murky past "remains a mystery to voters. For nearly three years, he worked at McKinsey & Company, an elite management consulting firm with offices around the world. It was work that took him, he has said, to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Last night the ad above started airing in New Hampshire. Bad news for Status Quo Joe, who depending on which poll you're looking at, is coming in first, second or third.

Fake candidates Mayo Pete and John DelaneyYesterday's poll from ABC News and the Washington Post by Langer shows once again that the establishment narrative that Mayo Pete is a contender is just false.

A new poll from Morning Consult has some not so great news for Mayo Pete. Between October 25 and 28, pollsters asked registered voters a number of questions. Some were very standard, like Trump's job approval-- 55% disapprove (43% strongly) and 43% approve, and like who they would vote for if the election was today-- 39% Trump and 52% someone other than Trump. Individual matchups showed both Biden and Bernie beating Trump, but not Buttigieg.