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[“dinky”? It’s proportionate to its population. What would this author say about Rhode Island?]

Her point is that candidates have devoted huge % of their financial and human resources to NH because they needed the momentum from it to raise more money so they could continue their campaigns until the convention. Giuliani was blasted out of contention in part because his fund-raising went to zero after he collapsed in the early primary states.

Bloomberg has no such constraints on his campaign. What is true of Bloomberg that is true of no other Democratic candidate is that he has run large organizations before, and he understands how to deploy both cash and people effectively. He crushed Reuters and Thomson in the financial news business despite Reuters having a head start of well over 100 years. Bloomberg LP’s current head count is 20,000 employees.

He also served as NYC’s mayor for 12 years, during which he smacked down NYC’s 25% black minority when they protested his aggressive stop-and-frisk tactics that brought NYC’s murder rate to a low it hadn’t seen in 50 years. He also brought NYC’s public employee unions to heel and limited both their salary gains and attempted cash grabs. While this record is a problem in terms of getting the Democratic nomination, they will help in nabbing independent voters if he does become the Democratic nominee. IMO, the contest for the Democratic nomination will funnel into a 2-horse race - between Bloomberg and Sanders.