“No big email list, no personal fortune. Hardly anybody knew my name, and fewer could pronounce it, but South Bend showed everyone what to do — first name Mayor, last name Pete — so nobody got confused,” Buttigeig said to a loud roar from the hometown crowd. “By every conventional wisdom, by every historical measure, we were never supposed to get anywhere at all. And then as I said that roller coaster February night a few weeks ago when Iowa shocked the nation, along that way, an improbable hope became an undeniable reality.”