'He's sort of an old soul': Why Pete Buttigieg does better with the older voters than younger ones

WALPOLE, N.H. – After supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, Clarence Boston wanted to check out a fresh face for 2020.

Yet the 78-year-old Sanders, who will be the nation’s oldest-ever president if elected, continues to dominate among the youngest voters, as he did in 2016. Even Buttigieg, who saw the same phenomenon when he first ran for mayor of South Bend, Indiana, at age 29, can’t explain it. Younger voters are more likely to back a single-payer health care system while older voters are more supportive of keeping the current arrangement, said Mary Snow, a polling analyst with Quinnipiac University Poll.

“I think, for younger voters, he’s more of a student council or a student government type: very earnest, very serious, very interested in the inner mechanics of government,” said Scala, who teaches at the University of New Hampshire. “I don’t know if all of that necessarily is an attractive and enthralling package to your average 20 -year-old.”

But in a Economist/YouGov national poll taken Dec. 1-3, a quarter of Democratic voters aged 18 to 29 said they’d be “disappointed” if Buttigieg became the nominee, his worst showing of any age group. A repeat patternButtigieg, who would be the nation’s youngest-ever president, was the youngest mayor of a city of 100,000 or more when first elected in 2011 to the post he is about to leave.

“To this day, I wonder why,” Buttigieg wrote in his memoir, “Shortest Way Home.” “Is it that senior voters are less likely to see distinctions between twenties, thirties, and forties? Did I remind them of their children? Whatever the reason, we took the data as a reminder that you should never assume who will or won’t support you.”

“Mayor Pete has vaulted into the top tier largely on the strength of two constituencies,” Democratic strategist David Axelrod recently said on his podcast, Hacks on Tap. “Weirdly, the youngest guy in the race is now challenging Biden for older voters.” A WBUR poll in New Hampshire released this month showed Buttigieg and Biden neck-and-neck overall, with Biden leading among the oldest voters and Buttigieg doing the best among voters age 45 to 59.

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