we gotta talk about him being gay sooner or later...is this going to help his electability nationally?
Racists voted for Obama in 2008, so homophobes could vote for a gay man, especially that type of gay man, in 2019.
In this hypothetical, he'd be running against a damaged Trump and he doesn't even need to
win everywhere. PA and MI aren't going for Trump and AZ, NC, and WI don't look bad right now either. I don't see being gay as a problem in most swing states. If he was facing somebody like Pierre Delecto (

), he'd probably lose but he's won't be.
Anyway, I doubt him winning IA would help him with black voters. We aren't on the fence with him, he's disliked because he's terrible on race. What it does is help Biden go into SC with a wide-open primary. That's the danger here. Warren's path to the nomination is going to need to be like John Kerry's; she needs to win IA to set up NH and SC.