More likely, they are sussing out what other jobs he might be happy with. Not to bribe him out of the race, they all know he’s not winning, but he seems like a real asset.
In the article, he says that it’s a really popular idea. I was surprised, so I did a quick search for polling on this. The only poll I found was one where the idea was popular if student debt was forgiven in exchange. But mandatory national service only had a 7 percent approval.
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Several Presidential candidates have policies with student loan forgiveness without the national service. Since the approvals were only in the 60% range, the approval for national service might not be as high if the student loan forgiveness was taken away.
Denizens of the Dope,
Re; Mayor Pete
I live 10-15 miles from South Bend and went to that old leaky Studebaker factory on Sunday, 14-Apr-19. It wasn’t raining quite as hard inside as it was outside, even if it sometimes it seemed like it.
What a hyped-up crowd, my local paper quoted the South Bend Fire Marshal as saying there were more than 4000 inside and another 1500+ outside. It felt quite cramped, I did use some of my time thinking of just how inadequate the exiting was.
I got to the temporary entrance gate at about 09:00 EDST. I waited two and a half hours before people were allowed to go in. Once inside, I waited about the same amount of time before Mr. Buttigieg spoke.
Very unusual experience for me, I found that trying to keep something of a dispassionate point of view to be quite difficult.
Respectfully yours Zuer-coli
Yeah, a real asset for not changing much of the status quo.
Wow. That’s poor organisation. If he can’t organise a rally, how can he organise a country? May’s shit-show at Crathes proved to be prophetic.
Because we have laws in our country of how many occupants may be in a building like that at any one time. You’re questioning pushing and shoving by guests who want to be inside. The problem is out of his hands and in the hands of the fire marshal.
As for his chances, it’s really Biden, Bernie and him. When the “Bernie Bros” are slandering him at any chance, there’s a reason to it. It’s still too early to tell, but individuals like Harris, Warren, Booker, et al. aren’t even being mentioned anymore. O’Rouke may have his thunder stolen.
No, I’m questioning waiting 5 hours to hear him speak.
That’s not uncommon, I can remember waiting that long to hear John Kerry and I had a special pass to guarantee admittance since I was a campaign volunteer. It takes forever to get into the venue, then there are numerous warm up speakers. It’s kind of like going to a rock concert.
And now, after hearing him speak in person, what did you think? Are you more or less likely to support him, or unchanged, and why?
Orange Junior tried to own Pete and got owned.
As an unexpected bonus, Mayor Pete is also fluent in binary:
“Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg stunned a campaign crowd Wednesday by speaking to manufacturing robots in fluent binary.”
Ruth Davidson warmed up for Theresa May and spoke for all of 5 minutes. I suppose it reflects upon the respective lengths of campaigns: you take 2 years; we take 4-6 weeks.
Well, that’s good. I only want the status quo changed a little bit. What do you want changed that Pete Buttigie won’t be on board with?
Good for you, I don’t, I want it changed alot.
Like what? You live in the UK, right? What do you expect from the next American president?
My moms American, and I have family in the US, it affects me a great deal. I expect the next President to provide free healthcare, and break the stranglehold big business has on the American workers neck.
The President isn’t really in charge of that though. Even though it’s nicknamed Obamacare, the ACA is a Congress creation. The President can only advocate or throw monkey wrenches.
I don’t care, the President sets the tone and the direction of the narrative.
There’s no such thing as “free” healthcare, or tuition either.