Poll finds three-way Democratic contest in Florida with Mike Bloomberg the slight leader

Florida Politics ^ | February 24, 2020 | Peter Schorsch

[caww]

Thank you for your insight.....so in essence it's a pay to play across the board for Bloomsberg to give him the advantages he seeks. But I still question if he really wants the presidency or is he's just manipulating the stage as he did for Pelosi to be House Leader?... Currently Hillary and Romney are too quiet.....

[Magnatron]

No surprise, a huge segment of Florida Democrat voters are transplanted New Yorkers...

[Zhang Fei]

[Thank you for your insight.....so in essence it’s a pay to play across the board for Bloomsberg to give him the advantages he seeks. But I still question if he really wants the presidency or is he’s just manipulating the stage as he did for Pelosi to be House Leader?... Currently Hillary and Romney are too quiet..... ]

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He spent years contributing to local leaders before his mayoral run. Then he ran, and won. Being kingmaker is for the birds. What kingmakers really want is to be king. Any reading of history will reveal that the only reason kingmakers refrained from putting themselves on the throne is because they feared being defeated by jealous rivals and having their kin slaughtered.

That fate isn’t in store for any presidential candidate. Nobody spends billions to have someone else’s hands on the levers of power. Like everyone who runs for the presidency, Bloomberg wants to land on a CVN and be greeted by thousands of USN sailors. He wants his name mentioned alongside Washington, Lincoln and FDR. I don’t buy that Bloomberg is merely holding someone else’s coat. What he really wants is to be head and shoulders above every other plutocrat in the world - basically the same reason Trump ran for office.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Bloomberg can slip each Super Delegate a couple million under the table - he’s got it in the bag. :)

[Zhang Fei]

[Bloomberg can slip each Super Delegate a couple million under the table - he’s got it in the bag. :)]

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PACs and charities - completely legal. And $50K is probably more money than any superdelegate has ever been offered. Not to mention the promise of eternal gratitude (i.e. government contracts, jobs, etc). $40m for all of them, which would be fairly cheap, relative to the cost of Bloomberg’s campaign so far. IMO, he needs at least 1000 delegates of his own to credibly challenge Sanders, if it comes to a second ballot. We’ll see how far he gets with that.

[caww]

You're likely correct.....although I could see Bloomberg getting vast amounts of adulation and notoriety if he pulled Hillary over the threash hold....but I can't see him going that low either.

[SunkenCiv]

...Bloomberg 23%... Biden 22%... Sanders 18%... Warren with 12%... Buttigieg with 9%... Klobuchar with 5%... Steyer and... Gabbard essentially got no support. One percent said they would vote for someone else and 9% of the Democrats surveyed said they were undecided.

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[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The issue is whether an unlimited ad budget can create a sufficient reality distortion field.

It’s a given that Trump can mop the floor with Bloomberg one-on-one. But the same might have been true of Ted Cruz v. Hillary - and we all know enough to doubt that he would have prevailed over her ads and the MSM.

The fact is that the Bloomberg ads will augment the MSM (basically unlimited) free support for Bloomberg. But if the MSM alone controlled, no Republican would ever win the presidency.