The Whitest Candidate U’ Know

Race is a troublesome issue for South Bend Indiana Mayor and current Democratic Iowa front-runner Pete Buttigieg.

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According to polling aggregator Real Clear Politics, Democratic Presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana has seen an eleven point surge in the past six weeks. Meanwhile, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders have each vacillated three to five points and Elizabeth Warren has dropped about 10 percentage points.

This recent rise of Pete Buttigieg in American politics could suggest several things.

• It could suggest that homosexuality is less threatening than gender or radical change.
• It may also suggest that he is a good alternative to the septuagenarians he’s currently running against.
• More importantly, as his current first-place standing in both Iowa and New Hampshire indicates, it strongly suggests that people are hungry for change. Any change.

However, as a 37-year-old two-time mayor of a mid-size American city what can be said about his ability to govern on a national level and influence and manage the complex world of international politics?

As a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University and a Rhodes Scholar, his educational pedigree…