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Is Michael Bloomberg The Answer?
As Democrats run around finding fatal flaws in all their Presidential candidates, a familiar face considers making a run…
Our thesis all along is the Democratic Presidential candidate will be the person who most effectively balances transformational with sane. Since this Presidential contest will be in large part a referendum on crazy. So in that context: maybe?
But let’s get one thing out of the way about Bloomberg: he’s not going to enter the race and be a big flop. He’s just not. He has enough money and intelligence to gauge in advance whether that’s likely to be the case. And if it is, he just won’t run. We really don’t think Bloomberg is so reckless to suddenly think this might be his last chance so what the hell…
So polling and data guru Nate Silver’s assertion that we should be looking at the fact Bloomberg didn’t poll well previously when lumped in with other Democratic candidates (even though he’s never actually been a candidate) is totally wrong. It bears no validity to the current situation. We don’t even think Silver is on to something when he says “media elites” categorically underestimate Biden, and Bloomberg “is…a media elite who hangs out with a lot of other media elites”.
