(03-17-2019, 03:26 PM)David Horn Wrote:(03-16-2019, 12:32 PM)Marypoza Wrote: -- some of my more political friends claim Beto's campaign is already DOA. And it's just been launched. I guess we'll see
Beto is the first true Millennial candidate, with all the warts that implies. Like Trump, he plays the room. He also plays the hive-vibe. He'll be a lesson in how to do it in the future, or not. I suspect he'll do well -- just not well enough to matter.
Beto was born in 1972, therefore Core Gen X--and about as steretypically Gen X as you can get, having been a teenage hacker, a twenty-year-old punk rocker in a dress, and so on. However, there are indications that he may not quite be the advocate for the people that we really need right now. And I don't trust Tulsi Gabbard, she is too friendly with mass murderers. Tulsi was born in '81; she could go either way, as far as generation. Gen Y or "Xennial," I guess.
Pete Buttigieg (born in '82) has just met the donor requirements to be on the panel at the Democratic debates. I heard him speak a little on NPR a couple of weeks ago and he seemed pretty reasonable. We'll see. The primaries are still a long way off.