If Bloomie ultimate goal is to make a national presence for himself within whatever party wins, he can easily take a different approach. If he decides to spend minimally at the national level but doles out the cash at a regional level, there's no reason that he couldn't take several states on the theory that he could buy enough of the House of Representatives.
Longshot, maybe. But if he's delusional enough to run from president in the first place . . .
Unless you buy votes, you need enough people, a plurality, to vote for you to capture the electoral votes. Can you name one state where Bloomberg has even the slightest chance of doing so?
I think Blommy’s goal is to help the Dems. He sure thinks like one. If Rudy is the GOP nominee, Bloomy will jump into the race and stay to the end. Bloomy’s upset that he wasn’t dubbed “America’s Mayor”. Should Fred become the GOP nominee, Bloomy will use his vast wealth to run endless ads portraying Fred as a “Right Wing Extremist” in an effort to drive down Fred’s numbers. In the fall of 2008 , Bloomy would drop out of the race to endorse the Dem.