Bloomberg is a highly-capable man. He is one of the few Goldman Sach alumni who got to be almost bigger than Goldman Sachs, based on his establishment of a niche that grew to dominate the financial data biz, toppling existing data providers like Reuters and Thomson in the process. And unlike the Donald, who's a silver spooner, Bloomberg is the son of a realtor.
He’s so personally annoying. I just can’t see the popularity once you get past the NE corridor.
Certainly true. And he's certainly done the math. But maybe he could explain it to me: I have trouble seeing a path for him to win New York State, which I think he'd have to do. He'd have to split the Democratic vote with someone (unless they nominate him!) and would thereby lose the state. That's because upstate is very un-liberal. Baby Cuomo, incumbent governor and son of a multi-term governor, made a deal with a now-convicted felon in the state GOP who delivered Long Island to him.
With this Grand Theft Electoral in his pocket, Cuomo managed to beat an unknown county executive. . . by about 10 points. Cuomo lost every county in the state but the 5 boroughs, Nassau, and a couple of big upstate welfare cities.
And Baby Cuomo is way more popular than Bloomie.
The deer-hunting upstaters, who about equal the NY metro area in population, would vote for the GOP in big numbers--because they ab-so-lutely hate Bloomberg the gun-and-soda grabber. The Nerd would probably carry some blue-nose states, but for the rest of the country, I'd venture to say Trump comes off as more American than does a whining, sniveling, narcissistic little nanny like Mike, no matter how many ads he buys. So does the allegedly Canadian Cruz.
But who knows.
Bloomie is a teeny weeny dictator with a Napoleon complex IMHO.
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Bloomberg is much less likable than Trump, and I don’t seeing him winning any southern or Midwestern state (outside of Illinois). I can’t believe he would even be a serious contender - though he could hurt Republicans in the same manner as Perot.