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How a Possible Bloomberg Independent Campaign Would Impact the Election
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 03/01/2020 11:50:33 AM PST by EyesOfTX

Biden Buffoonery Update! – To end his long, softball interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Quid Pro Joe looked at the camera and said, “Thanks, Chuck!”

I swear I don’t make this stuff up:

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During the interview, Biden also promised to “end the Ebola crisis.” Surreal.

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Hooboy. Five more months of this stuff. And then maybe four more after that if he and the DNC are able to rob The Commie of the nomination at the Milwaukee convention.

But onto the main topic here, which is, “what happens if Mini-Mike Bloomberg decides to run an independent campaign after failing to win the Democrat Party nomination?

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a week now, since I’ve gotten the question from several readers. But each day it has been overtaken by the parade of other major political events. With a fairly slow-ish news day upon us, now’s a good day to do it.

First, it’s doubtful Bloomberg would make this move in any event. Why? Because he really isn’t interested in being your president. As noted in this morning’s Campaign Update, he’s running as both a proxy for the dead-broke DNC, and as a stalking horse for heading off The Commie, in order to ensure either Biden or Pantsuit Princess candidacy. His ad campaign has thus far been aimed at driving up President Trump’s negatives – a complete failure thus far – and his ads going forward will likely be more aimed at softening up The Commie at the behest of the DNC.

Second, the only way he would even consider an independent run would be if The Commie becomes the Democrat Party’s nominee, an outcome the DNC will do everything in its power to prevent.

Third, if the tiny ex-Mayor does mount an independent run, who would be voting for him? Would he take more votes away from President Trump or from The Commie? That’s the real balancing act to consider here, isn’t it?

Yep.

So, what Democrats votes would he conceivably take away from The Commie? Obviously, the votes of actual liberals who can’t stand the thought of voting for a real, true-blue communist just because he happens to the standard-bearer for the Democrat Party this time around. How many such thoughtful liberals remain living in the United States today is an open question, as liberalism as a political philosophy has spent the last 28 years trending away from anything resembling actual reasoning in favor of shrill name-calling and identity politics.

But there is no doubt that Mini-Mike, currently pretending to be a Democrat, would steal millions of potential votes from The Commie, no matter how he were to construct his ad campaign.

On the GOP side, we have a similar equation: There is no doubt that a segment of the GOP voter base that we like to refer to as the #NeverTrump nitwit faction is itching to vote for somebody, anybody other than the Bad Orange Man in the White House. But as former congressman Joe Walsh found out the hard way during his extremely brief primary challenge of President Trump, you can cram every one of these #NeverTrump nitwits into an average inside cabin on one of the third-rate cruise ships they lease twice a year for their money-grubbing “seminar” cruises.

Other than those dozens of Bill Kristol-worshipping assclowns who actually thought that bald-headed creep from Utah, Evan McMullin – who still hasn’t paid off his campaign debts, by the way – was a viable presidential candidate in 2016, the population of Americans who identify as Republican voters who would choose to vote for Mini-Mike rather than their own incumbent President is very tiny indeed. So this is not really a viable hunting ground for the little ex-Mayor.

Independent voters would be a much more target-rich environment, though, and this is where Mr. Excitement could conceivably make a difference in the race. Sanders’ radicalism is going to turn off a huge portion of this voter group, so the question would become how big a slice Bloomberg could cut out for himself. That would largely depend on whether or not Mini-Mike could credibly present himself as a viable candidate who could actually win the race. As Ross Perot discovered in 1992, doing that is incredibly difficult for an independent candidate, regardless of how deep his pockets happen to be.

The bottom line is this: Bloomberg is identifying himself as a Democrat, a posture he has assumed for more than a decade now. As a Democrat, he would almost certainly end up taking more votes away from the Democrat candidate than from Trump, and it really wouldn’t matter how he ended up constructing his messaging.

So let Mini-Mike spend all the time and money he wants on an independent campaign: If his goal would be to harm the President’s re-election chances, he would be throwing tons of good money after bad.

Cool.

That is all.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; mediabias; trump; trumpwinsagain

1 posted on 03/01/2020 11:50:33 AM PST by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

I see Bloomberg ads as being on par with a dose of the clap during Fleet Week.


2 posted on 03/01/2020 11:52:50 AM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: EyesOfTX

If Bloomberg runs as an independent, one of these three will be his running mate: Jeb, Kasich or Romney.


3 posted on 03/01/2020 11:52:56 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

So he’s looking at the GOP Twatwaffle Caucus?

Go ahead and spend your money, Mike, who cares.


4 posted on 03/01/2020 11:56:18 AM PST by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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To: EyesOfTX

Sanders more likely to go 3rd party than Bloomberg - who knows - maybe
a third and fourth party run.


5 posted on 03/01/2020 11:58:22 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: EyesOfTX

I can’t see him pulling more than 50 votes away from Trump, and they would all be Bush family members, Romney, and Bill Kristol.


6 posted on 03/01/2020 12:02:05 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: EyesOfTX

Ads running on youtube and on ustvgo stations. One ad shows mostly 20-30 somethings talking about how ‘Mike’ rebuilt NY after 9/11 and stating that ‘Mike’ WILL get things done blah blah blah. Good ad to air to the ignorant.


7 posted on 03/01/2020 12:06:44 PM PST by LibertyWoman
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To: EyesOfTX

Hopefully after Super Tuesday it will become apparent that the Presidency cannot be bought by a very wealthy individual . Its been tried and failed before. William Randolph Hearst and Nelson Rockefeller both tried and failed. Bloomberg after Tuesday will have a $500 million dollar migraine and will fade from the conversation. It will be Sanders v Trump in November.


8 posted on 03/01/2020 12:07:31 PM PST by allendale (.)
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Bloomberg search results (already chrono order) cleaned up a bit, looks like my last one was 2/11 (topic 3815535).

9 posted on 03/01/2020 12:14:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: EyesOfTX

Bloomberg will only get the dems who aren’t as socialist as Bernie. It won’t have an impact on the GOP since Bloomberg was running as a democrat.

Good luck to the media spinning this as a Bloomberg republican split


10 posted on 03/01/2020 12:14:15 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Operation Chaos is in play. Repeat, Operation Chaos is in play)
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Whoops, corrections:

11 posted on 03/01/2020 12:20:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Doom-and-Gloomberg was brought in to split the so-called moderate Democrat voters and hand the nomination to Bernie. He's also there to usher out the last of the old-line libs. Oh, and it's probably not worth doubting the idea that the DNC is corrupt, and broke, and was only too happy to accept bags of unmarked bills.

12 posted on 03/01/2020 12:23:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

if bloomberg runs as independant he will pick romney as vp and try to triangulate trump handingbthe win to hillarynjustnlike in bills election


13 posted on 03/01/2020 12:48:15 PM PST by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: EyesOfTX

It’s not going to happen unless possibly if Sanders is the nominee in which case they will lose anyway.


14 posted on 03/01/2020 1:14:20 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: dfwgator
Bloomturd should have as a running mate Bozo the Clown... 😋
15 posted on 03/01/2020 2:06:20 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: EyesOfTX

Nothings changed, Bidens their guy, BLoomberg will finance the Dem takeover, some woman will be the VP. That’s the plan, even Bernie is in on it.


16 posted on 03/01/2020 3:41:10 PM PST by QuigleyDU
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To: EyesOfTX

With Clint Leftwood as VEEP he may win.


17 posted on 03/01/2020 3:54:23 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Sidebars for my #12.
recent, from the FRchives:

18 posted on 03/01/2020 4:53:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Deplorable American1776

I seem to remember that Joe Walsh expressed an interest in the vice-presidency.


19 posted on 03/01/2020 6:14:30 PM PST by Reynoldo
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