[NYC Republican]

If this little scum troll runs, do people think he’ll take more votes from a Dem or Republican???

[Neu Pragmatist]

He’ll hurt the Dems .
He’ll most likely put New York in play for the Republicans ...

[advertising guy]

dems...more important, those giving him good lip do vote unlike the weirdo crowd moveon attracts

[Brilliant]

I think he’s actually running for VP. He’s going to try to get the Dems to put him on the ticket, luring them with hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money, and the threat that if they don’t do it, then he’ll run against them with hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money, either on the GOP ticket or as an Independent.

[Brilliant]

“If this little scum troll runs, do people think he’ll take more votes from a Dem or Republican???”

It depends on who he uses his millions of dollars to run attack ads against.

[mysterio]

If this little scum troll runs, do people think he’ll take more votes from a Dem or Republican???

He'll draw mostly Republican votes for sure. Northeast corporatist country club Republican votes. A low percentage of dems are going to vote for Bloomberg. The dems smell blood in the water and are as unified as they have been in over a decade.

If that idiot Bloomberg runs, the odds of the dem taking the Presidency improve significantly.

[Nonstatist]

If this little scum troll runs, do people think he’ll take more votes from a Dem or Republican???

He will hurt the Republicans bigtime, particularly with Independents disgusted with Hillary but reluctant to vote Republican. That is a huge group.

If that rich sot runs it will be in secret alliance with the Hildabeast, you can count on it.

[Vince Ferrer]

...do people think he’ll take more votes from a Dem or Republican???

He will win independent votes away from Dems. With his stands on tobacco regulation and gun control, he can't win libertarians. With his positions on abortion and gun control, and his party of convenience membership in the Republican party, he can't draw republicans. He won't get many Democrats, because is no different than Hillary, Obama and Edwards, but without the party backing. But he can take a significant chunk of independents who would have voted democrat. This will help republicans at very little risk to conservatives.

[Young Scholar]

I think that depends on the nominees. If the Republicans nominate Huckabee, he’ll almost certainly take more GOP votes since many socially moderate or liberal but pro-business Republicans will abandon Huckabee for him (although without him some of these might otherwise go to Clinton or Obama).

[neverdem]

INDEPENDENT RUN WOULD DAMAGE THE DEMS WORSE (Bloomberg)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

If this little scum troll runs, do people think he’ll take more votes from a Dem or Republican???

He'll easily hurt the Dem candidate if Paul or Thompson is the GOP nominee. Bloomberg's a statist and conservatives won't vote for him.

However if Giuliani or Huckster is the GOP nominee, you have 3 socialists in the race then. I'd probably move to Panama then.