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Bloomberg for President
Had to share this prediction from Business Week via Yahoo.
Bloomberg’s Historic Run
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will enter the Presidential race in February, after it becomes clear which nominees will get the nod from the major parties. His multiple billions and organization will impress voters — and stun rivals. He’ll look like the most viable third-party candidate since Teddy Roosevelt. But Bloomberg will come up short, as he comes in for withering attacks from both Democrats and Republicans. He and Clinton will split more than 50% of the votes, but Arizona’s maverick Senator John McCain, will end up the country’s next President.
Wow! That would be something to shake things up a bid. Bloomberg would be the anti incumbent candidate of 2008 (but not anti establishment).
January 10th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
[…] This follows Business Week’s prediction that Bloomberg will run for president, entering in February. So this prediction is right on course. Way to go Business Week. […]
January 10th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
If Bloomberg did enter the presidential race, how would he get his name on the primary ballots? Maybe it would be just a write in camgain. If just a write in, that would be a big negative for him.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:54 am
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January 14th, 2008 at 2:04 am
To answer “retire-55″ above. No, it will not be a write in. He will be on the ballot in all 50 states. He will have to get signatures, different numbers of signatures depending on the state. Many signatures always get rejected, so a signature drive generally aims to get double the signatures required by law in the given state. If the state requires 10,000 signatures, the candidate will try to collect 20,000. There are companies that do this. They hire signature collectors, and pay them between 50¢ to $2 per signature collected and assume the 50% error rate.
Also, in every state, both the state Democratic Party and the state Republican Party will file legal challenges against a third party candidate getting on the ballot. They are just throwing money and paper at the 3rd party opponent with frivolous litigation, knowing all the while that the legal challenges can be defeated. The purpose is to create a huge burdensome distraction on their time and resources, and to make the (usually) underfunded 3rd party candidate go broke. Both major parties do it. Ralph Nader burned most of his campaign money fighting frivolous legal challenges from the Democrats (who believed he would take votes from their candidate). Nader’s campaign simply went broke, and was only able to get on the ballot in, I think it was 35 states. But for Bloomberg, this will not be a problem. This is an excellent example of an obstacle that is more easily traversed with money. With a candidate like Bloomberg, this could actually backfire on the major parties. He actually has more money than they do.
This puts the cost of getting on the ballot in all 50 states at less than $10 million dollars, by most estimations. A lot of money, for sure, but pocket change to a guy like Bloomberg who’s personal worth is valued at a minimum, $11.5 Billion (some analyst suggest over $20 Billion).
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http://www.RunMikeRun.com