Bingo.
Nobody really knows him yet. The vacuum of political clout in the current Dem candidate list could suck the paint off an outhouse wall, and he's what's left. Crazy Bernie will be 79 years old in September, more than twice Buttiegieg's age. He would be 80 his first year in office. It isn't happening. So Butti has the advantage 0bama did, being a tabula rasa on which the media will paint their version of the Last Supper for the irrecoverably credulous that constitute such a major core of the Democrat party. They can't do that with Bernie and they know it. And I don't think it would be enough in any case.