Bloomberg Willing To Spend $1B On Possible Presidential Bid

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03 Feb 2016, 1:18 pm

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Speaking as a liberal myself, I wouldn't consider Bloomberg to be liberal. I find it odd that he wants to run at all. I really don't know where his support is going to come from, I don't know anyone that likes him.


How is he less liberal than Hillary?


I wouldn't call Hillary much of a liberal either...she tries to appeal to liberals, but she's just another slimy billionaire backed candidate who will put big buisiness before the people, and she can't be a liberal because she's a social conservative.


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03 Feb 2016, 2:18 pm

Find it annoying people from outside USA think the us is mostly liberals like their nation.
If it was popular vote trump would win in a land side as every conservative, gun owner, republican would come out to vote while the other half being liberals , well half of them wouldn't bother going to vote.

I see rally after rally and mor from the right show up then the left. The liberals tend to not want to put in the effort, that and either person elected won't directly effect them , but the right has a s**t ton to lose if any of thos Dems are elected, if many state hitter wanna be Bloomberg who thinks being rich means he owns and controls what we do, is elected I suspect their be a rebellion before his 8 years are up. He doesn't own us, and people are getting tired of him and hai using money to get laws they don't like passed.



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03 Feb 2016, 2:27 pm

Sly, where do you getting your information from? I'm not trying to start a debate or anything, I'm just curious.

On any note, I still think Bloomberg is going to be a non issue. I don't think he has any real popular support. He's got enough money and influence to get the media to pay attention to him on this but that's pretty much it. On top of that, I don't think he'll get past his sugary drink ban.



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03 Feb 2016, 3:25 pm

the vote tampering is gonna go into high gear this year.



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03 Feb 2016, 3:34 pm

Bloomberg is a rich liberal that would be better off saving his money.
He's not going to get elected.


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03 Feb 2016, 4:23 pm

anybody but cruz.



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04 Feb 2016, 4:19 pm

Ross Perot was one of the most successful third party candidates of the 20th century. He won 19% of the popular vote.

Care to take a guess at how many electoral votes (the votes that really count) he got?

A big fat zero. :wink:

Bloomberg would be playing spoiler, and he is smart enough to know it.


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04 Feb 2016, 4:35 pm

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Ross Perot was one of the most successful third party candidates of the 20th century. He won 19% of the popular vote. Care to take a guess at how many electoral votes (the votes that really count) he got? A big fat zero. :wink: Bloomberg would be playing spoiler, and he is smart enough to know it.

ok, which side is he trying to spoil?



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04 Feb 2016, 4:40 pm

auntblabby wrote:
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Ross Perot was one of the most successful third party candidates of the 20th century. He won 19% of the popular vote. Care to take a guess at how many electoral votes (the votes that really count) he got? A big fat zero. :wink: Bloomberg would be playing spoiler, and he is smart enough to know it.

ok, which side is he trying to spoil?


He was spoiling both candidates because he an against NAFTA and both Bush and Clinton were for it. I think he was mainly running on the trade issue.



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04 Feb 2016, 4:41 pm

Lukeda420 wrote:
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Ross Perot was one of the most successful third party candidates of the 20th century. He won 19% of the popular vote. Care to take a guess at how many electoral votes (the votes that really count) he got? A big fat zero. :wink: Bloomberg would be playing spoiler, and he is smart enough to know it.

ok, which side is he trying to spoil?


He was spoiling both candidates because he an against NAFTA and both Bush and Clinton were for it. I think he was mainly running on the trade issue.

but he has got to be spoiling one side more than the other.



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04 Feb 2016, 4:49 pm

^^
You're probably right but I don't know enough about him to say. My guess is he would have leaned right. I think he was a libertarian. According to CATO (not my favorite source) he pulled from the bush campaign.



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04 Feb 2016, 4:56 pm

Lukeda420 wrote:
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You're probably right but I don't know enough about him to say. My guess is he would have leaned right. I think he was a libertarian. According to CATO (not my favorite source) he pulled from the bush campaign.

I wonder how he expects to get more gun regulations then, if he wants a rightie to win?