Well, at the start of the night I had the following set of goals for Buttigieg.
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And I'm not sure he accomplished any of them. Several of the lower-polling candidates were pretty effective in stealing his thunder. Warren and Sanders managed to have their share of good, interesting moments despite not really tangling with one another. And while Buttigieg tried to weave a careful course in between the moderates and the liberals, it wasn't particularly effective given that CNN's frame of the night was playing up the conflict between the two wings. For all that said, he wasn't bad, except for the answer about the racial divide, and he's not one of the candidates who needed to have a great debate since he's safely on stage for the 3rd debate.