Could Pete Buttigieg win the Democratic nomination?

Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg delivers a Veterans Day address at a campaign event on Nov. 11, 2019, in Rochester, N.H.(Elise Amendola / The Associated Press)

The latest national Democratic polls reflect an increasingly muddled national race with former Vice President Joe Biden trailed closely by Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

But polls and recent reporting show a very different picture emerging in Iowa, the state that formally…