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Obama’s Success Makes a Bloomberg Campaign Moot

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Posted on Jan 7, 2008

Barack Obama’s determination to unite Americans and his strong electoral showing in Iowa, fueled in no small part by independents, have taken the wind out of Michael Bloomberg’s sails. The New York mayor has been, by some accounts, considering an independent run for president, but now there just doesn’t seem to be much of a point.

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But even as the mayor gathered on Monday with the seasoned Washington hands on the campus of the University of Oklahoma, the surging presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama seemed to steal energy from the event and set off worry elsewhere among Mr. Bloomberg’s supporters.

Mr. Obama has stressed that he wants to move beyond gridlocked politics and usher in an era of national unity. A key organizer of the effort to draft Mr. Bloomberg for a presidential run acknowledged in an interview on Monday that that Mr. Obama’s rise could be problematic.

“Obama is trying to reach out to independent voters, and that clearly would be the constituency that Mike Bloomberg would go after,” said Andrew MacRae, who heads the Washington chapter of Draft Mike Bloomberg for President 2008. “An Obama victory does not make it impossible, but it certainly makes it more difficult.”

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By Blackspeare, January 8 at 7:42 pm #

Not so fast----it appears that Clinton has won in New Hampshire.  However, you are correct Bloomberg would never run against Obama should he be the nominee.  Can you imagine a Jew opposing the first Black for president and splitting the vote such that the Republican candidate wins!

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By rage, January 8 at 12:41 pm #
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“Barack Obama’s determination to unite Americans and his strong electoral showing in Iowa, fueled in no small part by independents, have taken the wind out of Michael Bloomberg’s sails.”

If the momentary surge in popularity Barak Obama has afforded the DNC has knocked the wind out of Michael Bloomberg’s sails, his sails had no political wind in the first place. What do you want to bet that the GOP has already let Bloomberg’s handlers know that their runners are already tanking, and that his declaration to run would only set the befuddled GOP runners back to single digit poll approval, giving some Democrat an undeniable victory in November? Were he to declare a run as an independent, Bloomberg would be the GOP’s Nader in November 2008.

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By Joe R., January 8 at 5:48 am #
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Bloomberg is trying to slow the Democratic wave.  His candidacy is to preserve government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.  Just like his pal Chuck Hagel, who bitched a lot and sounded good but when it was crunch time, voted right along with the Bush agenda, Bloomberg fears the wrath of a middle class uprising in the US. 

Billionaires should be taxed right out of existence.  They are the most dangerous group on the planet.  They are more dangerous than the very poor because they own governments.

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By Andrew MacRae, January 7 at 9:49 pm #
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I hate to break it to to, but it’s no secret that McCain and Obama have more independent appeal than the other candidates currently running for President. Republican or Democratic, the problem is partisan gridlock and it is not going to go away if you elect either one of them.

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