Pete Buttigieg pulled off a surprisingly successful presidential run. …
But beating expectations and winning primaries and caucuses are different things. … He had stalled out at around 10 or 11 percent in national polls, and there was a good chance that he would fail to reach 15 percent — typically the threshold to win delegates to the national convention — in any of the 14 states voting on Super Tuesday, nor in a ton of congressional districts. It just didn’t seem like Buttigieg had a path to start accumulating delegates. CONT.
Perry Bacon Jr., FiveThirtyEight