“ Castro kind of comes off with fangs every now and again, as he did with Biden and Beto — Buttigieg just doesn’t do that,” he said, a reference to Julián Castro’s debate-stage attacks, which backfired. “I think that probably appeals to older Iowans’ sense of decorum.”In a brief interview before an event in Storm Lake on Tuesday, Mr. Buttigieg theorized that he was attracting older Americans because they might have “a more generous understanding of what experience means.”“Every older person was a younger person once,” he said. “And maybe it demystifies a little bit the extent to which age represents readiness.”At the same time, Mr. Buttigieg is struggling to attract voters on the opposite end of the spectrum — those closer to his own age. Older voters who support Mr. Buttigieg say he represents the best hope for the country, offering a future-focused vision that they feel will help younger generations. And of those who mention his sexuality at all, they often treat it with a shrug.

Source: New York Times November 28, 2019 15:33 UTC