Bloomberg's gamble

[TechBear_Seattle]

Bloomberg's gamble

New York City is frequently derided as being too eccentric, sophisticated and "European" to belong to the real America.

When it comes to elections, it has always been the stage for lavish fundraisers, mined for cash by both sides, but largely ignored as a source of coveted votes because New York tends to vote Democrat and hasn't swung - in electoral terms - for decades.

So wouldn't it be funny if the three names on the presidential ballot in 2008 all hailed from the Empire State?

Did I say three?

Here's the imaginary list: Hillary Clinton, the junior senator from New York in the Democratic corner; Rudy Giuliani, the former Mayor of New York, in the Republican corner; and current Mayor Michael Bloomberg somewhere in the middle, hovering as an independent candidate, an antibody in Washington party politics, stealing disaffected voters from both parties.

The article from the BBC continues at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6224544.stm

[madinmaryland]

1. My god!!1!! The Freeper's heads must be exploding thinking

about this!

:rofl:

[Broadslidin]

2. The Southern folk have Never cottoned to the Northern "smart-asses"...!

:hide:

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. He misses the point. Plus his facts are wrong.

>> He also abandoned the Dem Party to win an election. And he has a message: Mr Bloomberg was against the war in Iraq and he is for gay rights, gun control and abortion.>>

Facts: Bloomberg has ALWAYS supported the war in Iraq and continues to do so. He *says* he's for gay rights( one says this when one is running for mayor of NYC; like kissing babies in Io-way)In fact, he instructed city attys to argue *against* same sex marriage in the courts. Abortion? Great; he says he's pro-choice. So he spends 7 million dollars getting Bush reelected and Bush appoints , predictably, a pro-lifer Chief Justice the SCOTUS. That's quite a commitment.

Larger point ( also missed): These three (Hillary, Rudy, Bloomie)are are the three musketeers of mediocrity. What they have is powerful PR ( in Bloomberg's case, literally the best money can buy) machines and... not unrelatedly... the adoration of the corporate media, esp. the NY based corporate media.