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... pressure the major party candidates to renounce partisan gridlock

Gridlock is the best thing about the two party system.

What difference does it make what the POTUS candidates think about gridlock? The only way to break the log-jam on a liberal or conservative agenda is to form a congressional super-majority. No one is able to figure out how to win 63 senate seats and 290 congressional seats. Furthermore, with no party loyalty (e.g., Specter, McCain), even said majorities would be no guarantee of implementing an agenda.

Bloomberg may be able to drive the election into the US House of Representatives when the majors fail to top 270 electoral votes. That would assure a rat victory. :-(

A NYT dream. If Bloomberg were mayor of Atlanta, St. Louis, or even Chicago would the NYT be constantly running this up the flag pole?