Article snippet: HENNIKER, N.H. — Sheila Rose-Switzer, 74, traveled to a nearby college campus last week to see Pete Buttigieg, the youngest Democrat running for president. Surrounded by more seniors than college students, the snowy-haired Rose-Switzer realized during Buttigieg’s 20-minute speech that she had found her candidate in a politician half her age. “He’s youthful like JFK was,” she said after the town hall at New England College, recalling watching President John F. Kennedy on TV in the early 1960s, when he was in his 40s and she was in high school. “And he could bring the country together like he talked about.” Maybe it’s the hint of the Kennedyesque, maybe it’s that the relentlessly articulate and polite 37-year-old Buttigieg comes across as an older person’s idea of what a young person should be. The South Bend, Ind., mayor is winning big support from some of the oldest Democrats in early voting states like New Hampshire, where he is leading the field among voters over 65 in one recent poll. But Buttigieg struggles to win over the young. That’s Bernie country. The oldest candidate in the race, the determinedly crotchety 78-year-old Senator Sanders, is a hit with the youngest voters tracking the 2020 campaign. And, to note another eye-opening trend, black candidates such as Senator Kamala Harris, who recently dropped out, and Senator Cory Booker have failed to cut into the base of support among black voters for former vice president Joe Biden. It is, so far, the year... Link to the full article to read more