Bloomberg won't run for President
Source: NYT
"Michael R. Bloomberg, who for months quietly laid the groundwork to run for president as an independent, will not enter the 2016 campaign, he said Monday, citing his fear that a three-way race could lead to the election of a candidate who would imperil the security and stability of the United States: Donald J. Trump".
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-not-running-for-president.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=60376650&pgtype=Homepage
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Ice cream.
Peet's coffee beans.
Let me know if you need more reasons. I've got a million of 'em, folks!
Great post, btw!
forest444
(5,902 posts)Amirite?
merrily
(45,251 posts)I'll certainly go with music in general and so many other things to see, smell, touch, taste and/or hear.
forest444
(5,902 posts)Try posting standing up, merrily - with your laptop on the counter, and perhaps with a nice jazz or classical station in the background.
It'll probably your DU time a little less captivating, although I know what you mean. It's so much fun sometimes.
All the more so with Mr. Bernie running!
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)No flies on Michael, wot?
rurallib
(62,478 posts)I don't even know what to think anymore.
Gothmog
(145,839 posts)There is only a 5% chance that Sanders will be the nominee and so it does not make sense for Bloomberg to make a run
William769
(55,150 posts)WOW!
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)And comfortable with the prospect of a Clinton presidency.
Baby... that's all you need to know.
Renew Deal
(81,897 posts)We might get one out of the two and it's not Sanders.
lark
(23,191 posts)Whew!!
livetohike
(22,169 posts)third term as President was zero 😊.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)mcar
(42,465 posts)chapdrum
(930 posts)Kasich.
Sorry that the other genteel GOP'er won't run.
thesquanderer
(12,000 posts)He had originally said he would consider a run if Sanders got the Dem nomination, but not if Hillary did. So I guess he has either decided that Sanders has even less chance now than he did when he first floated the balloon, or he's decided that, even on the off-chance Sanders can somehow manage the nomination, he no longer believes that Sanders and Trump (or Cruz) would be equally undesirable.
I'm a little surprised he didn't wait until March 15, when another big batch of primaries might further solidify where things are heading, but I guess he decided it didn't matter. (I had read elsewhere that he had until "mid March" until windows of opportunity for getting on all the necessary state ballots would start to close.)
chapdrum
(930 posts)over Trump, o fraudulent party of scumbags (genteel or otherwise).
greymouse
(872 posts)I'm going with 0 or maybe New York.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)...in a three-way race against Michael Bloomberg and Donald Trump.
They thought Bloomberg would win Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee, Georgia, and other states.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/706974468997038080
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)election, basically, his financial analysts or someone said it was not worth the risk and investment, that he would likely not win. I don't think he likes to waste money on something he would probably not win no matter who he was running against.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)malthaussen
(17,235 posts)... and decided he didn't have a chance. And Mr Bloomberg is not Don Quixote.
-- Mal