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Margaret Sullivan: ‘Mayor Pete’ is sweeping the media off their feet. Time for a few deep breaths.

And at the moment, the presidential candidate that many media types — and quite a few citizens — are tumbling for is 37-year-old Pete Buttigieg, also known as Mayor Pete of South Bend, Ind.

And media figures are fallin’ — all over themselves — to give him the kind of attention that hasn’t been seen since ... well, since a couple of weeks ago when the flavor of the month was Beto O’Rourke. (Remember that Vanity Fair cover story and the wall-to-wall coverage of his launch?)

Here, for example, was CNN's Chris Cillizza, commenting on Twitter about some comparative fundraising - specifically numbers announced by Sen.