Consider for a moment that a relatively unknown -year-old mayor of South Bend Indiana is running third in the Democrat race for president behind nationally-known candidates Joe Biden former Vice President and Bernie Sanders current U S Senator So what has made this young man so attractive to voters above far more prominent candidates such as Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren former Texas Rep Beto O'Rourke and others Prominent liberal writer Andrew Sullivan already sought to answer the question in a New York Magazine article titled Is Pete Buttigieg a Transformational Candidate [... more]