[Nuke74]

I just wanna see how Bloomberg is thought of in a pretty random selection of society.

[Saniel]

He was obviously a better mayor than 9ui11iani.

[Kaiser]

The name sounds familiar but I can't place it. Mind giving some more details?

[Viking]

Being from the general area he is involved in, I can definitely say he is indeed a mayor.

[Galaisa]

He is a hypocrite with his anti-drug stance.

[Toichus Maximus]

Kaiser, on Jan 10 2008, 06:35 PM, said:

The name sounds familiar but I can't place it. Mind giving some more details?

Mayor of NYC, multi-billionaire, potential presidential candidate.

[Leguaris]

Bloomberg will not run for President if Obama wins the Democratic nomination.

Calling it right here, right now.

[Toichus Maximus]

Leguaris, on Jan 10 2008, 07:15 PM, said:

Bloomberg will not run for President if Obama wins the Democratic nomination.

Calling it right here, right now.

he's going to announce after super tuesday, which is before we'll discover who wins

[Leguaris]

Toichus Maximus, on Jan 10 2008, 07:56 PM, said:

he's going to announce after super tuesday, which is before we'll discover who wins

Foiled!

<Finds the EDIT pen>

Bloomberg will not run for President if Obama wins looks like he's going to win the Democratic nomination after Super Tuesday.

Calling it right here, right now.

[Elyat]

A third-party candidate running and winning would be good. Maybe he'll draw some votes from the Democrats and give the Republicans a victory. Then the Democrats can whine for 4 years about how someone else spoiled it for them and stole "their" votes rather than evaluate why people voted for someone other than them.

[Kaiser]

Doitzel, on Jan 10 2008, 07:13 PM, said:

A third-party candidate running and winning would be good. Maybe he'll draw some votes from the Democrats and give the Republicans a victory. Then the Democrats can whine for 4 years about how someone else spoiled it for them and stole "their" votes rather than evaluate why people voted for someone other than them.

It's the perfect plan!

[admin]

Saniel, on Jan 10 2008, 05:35 PM, said:

9ui11iani

Nice one! Regarding Bloomberg, I think we've seen out of Ralph Nader, Ross Perot and others that the independent canidate in this country just doesn't have much to stand on, especially in this election. What would he run on that's not already a tag line by the majority of the canidates out there? Besides he's a Democrat, turned Republican, turned independent which is confusing and he's just not a big name for many voters outside of New York. If anyone could have even a chance to pull off the independent vote it would be Clinton or Obama when one of those two doesn't get the nomination.

[Pyrrhus]

He's done a pretty good job of running New York city. But what I'm concerned with is how he's delt with the educational system here, which is to say not at all. He's made a number of bureaucratic changes, which haven't helped, and have probably made the situation worse. Not to mention, at a time when class sizes are huge (30+ even in elementary school), he's done nothing in the way of buying more property to build new schools in order to alleviate classroom crowding, which is perfectly well with in his power

[Czar Garrett]

He's run NYC like a business, which is the way things need to be run. I don't think NYC has done better in a while.


However, a poll recently done in the NYC area shows limited support for him in a Presidential race

Quote

Q: Do you think Bloomberg would make a good president?

Yes 52%

No 39%

Q: How likely is it that you would vote for him?

Definitely/probably 34%

Definitely not/probably not 58%

Quinnipiac University Poll fo 1,162 Registered City Voters was conducted Jan. 3-7 Margin of error +/- 2.9 percentage points.

http://www.newsday.c...al/newyork/...0,7178013.story



I wouldn't mind seeing him as President. Socially liberal and fiscally conservative- thats a combination I can get behind.

[Kevin the Great]

Bloomberg is as anti-gun as they come. A Bloomberg run wouldn't even make a ripple in most of the nation.

[SoxNation]

Kaiser, on Jan 10 2008, 08:26 PM, said:

It's the perfect plan!

i wonder why people think he'd draw many from the dems


while he used to be a dem, he is now a republican, and that tag will prevent many democrats from voting for him and more republicans would vote for him, i think the effect would be in the reverse.

[Kevin the Great]

He was a RINO, and has left the Republican party.

[steodonn]

Never heard of him

[Loki Ire]

Toichus Maximus, on Jan 10 2008, 07:56 PM, said:

he's going to announce after super tuesday, which is before we'll discover who wins

Hillary's got enough super delegates in her pocket that she'll take the nomination at the last second if it's even close. If she thought her unfavorables looked bad before, just wait until CNN's running headline for a week and a half is: CLINTON STEALS PRIMARY WIN AT LAST SECOND.

Bloomberg won't even be a footnote if he sticks his nose in this mess now. His best bet would be to wait 4 - 8 years.

[Frank Carbonni]

He's a hypocrite and nanny stater.