What many of you may not realize is that Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, by virtual of being the first openly gay presidential candidate, is picking up all the gay votes and money throughout the country. A lot of gays are quite wealthy, many of them are in Silicon valley (Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Technologies is gay and worth billions).
Throughout the fruited plain (pun intended) the gay communities are most assuredly filtering tons of campaign contributions into Buttigieg’s financial coffers. He’s got a built-in monetary base, but it doesn’t translate into votes by the general populace, as the gay community comprises about 1-2 percent of the U.S. population, regardless of how much the gays jigger the numbers to make it seem that gays are now legion.
Thus Mayor Pete has huge donation numbers but no one to vote for him but gays. I might add, Blacks have never been big fans of gays in general, and note that Buttigieg has miniscule backing and virtually no votes at all coming from the Black community. [I might add here, that I bet dollars to donuts that Cory Booker is a closet gay, the Blacks smell that off of him, and he has virtually no backing or votes coming out of the Black community. At least they know that touchy-feely Joe Biden is heterosexual and he scores high with Blacks.]
Bottom line, high dollar contributions for Mayor Pete, but no votes.
Mayor Pete is mostly angling to be the VP, and will hold onto campaign money to leverage this at the convention. You are correct....he just won’t get that many votes in the primary period. At best, he might be able to win two to three states in the primary period.