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45 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Would be cool if Pete went to one of those straight camps and came out with a nice looking beard by his side. Otherwise he has zero chance at winning a national election despite being extraordinarily competent and probably the best person for the job in todays climate.

Disagree. A gay white male who isn't too zesty is not as career limiting as being BIPOC or a woman. Tim Cook, Peter Theil, etc. I think it's widely thought or accepted that being gay doesn't chnage the privilege of being a white male.

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50 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

A gay white male who isn't too zesty is not as career limiting as being BIPOC or a woman.

I’ve been down on Mayor Pete’s chances in ‘28, but I’m coming around to the idea that he’ll just be so familiar to much of the electorate that his homosexuality won’t have the same challenges it might to another candidate.  Also, the voters most concerned about that weren’t ever going to vote Dem anyway.  

It also stands to reason that ‘28 is going to be about the economy and coalition building around ethnicity will be less emphasized.  

 

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We just can't have another 2020 primary where everyone was at each other's throats. Looking back, that was an embarrassing moment for Dem/lib/left wing voters too. Stupid fucking purity tests that split everyone apart. 

The candidates and voters needs to lay off the personal attacks and minutiae and keep the coalition together. 

 

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1 hour ago, LCHorn said:

I’ve been down on Mayor Pete’s chances in ‘28, but I’m coming around to the idea that he’ll just be so familiar to much of the electorate that his homosexuality won’t have the same challenges it might to another candidate.  Also, the voters most concerned about that weren’t ever going to vote Dem anyway.  

It also stands to reason that ‘28 is going to be about the economy and coalition building around ethnicity will be less emphasized.  

 

I think Pete and his team are actually taking the issue "head on" without being overt about it. The more he can do the conservative podcast circuit and land laughs, jokes and not seem like a stiff like he did on the recent one where he didn't shy away from being gay it could be something that turns into a "non issue". 

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2 hours ago, immamac said:

The more he can do the conservative podcast circuit

They haven’t been the problem for him, it’s his lack of appeal to African Americans, and who tend to be survey very conservative on LGBTQ issues.  
 

What might be different now is that Trump has appeared to fracture the presumed loyalty the younger members of that group has to voting D and more closely resemble their economic counterparts among other ethnic groups.  If you have to earn that vote based on economics and not civil rights, anyway, then you might as well not run from losing a few elderly AA votes.  



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