Not your father's campaign trail: What might have happened to Buttigieg a generation ago

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Larry Agran from Irvine, Calif., was the last candidate before the South Bend mayor to attempt the leap from a midsize city hall to the White House. It didn't go well.

March 31, 2019, 6:01 AM EDT
By Steve Kornacki

He was described as "the longest of longshots" when he decided to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, and for good reason.

He'd been the mayor of a city whose population, at barely 100,000, ranked 167th in America, falling somewhere between Cedar Rapids and Topeka. Outside of his hometown, almost no one had ever heard of him. "It's ludicrous," one pundit sniffed.

But his party was desperate to reclaim the presidency and he was convinced that once they took a look at him, Democrats would see a winner — a progressive military veteran from a deeply conservative area running on a message of generational transformation.

Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana?

Nope.

Larry Agran from Irvine, Calif., the last candidate before Buttigieg to attempt the audacious leap from a midsize city hall to the White House.

Agran ran in 1992, a generation ago, when the media ecosystem was far narrower and more constricting. To compare what he endured as a candidate then to what Buttigieg has already experienced now is to recognize just how dramatically that ecosystem has been revolutionized — and what that revolution has made possible.

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1. Things have changed with social media..that is for sure

candidates who would not have had a snowballs chance, are more likely to get a fair hearing .. this is where great ideas come from.. and some pretty bad ones with no filters.. its the yin and yang of modern politics.. loving the articles you are posting by the way.. thanks..good reads