On Jun 20, 2007, at 6:27 PM, ravi wrote:
> Bloomberg's impact will be on the Democrats, more so than Nader, for
> two reasons: he is a liberal who will take away a lot more Democratic
> votes than GOP ones, and second his "bipartisanship" moderate
> platform is a natural one that bests the contrived triangulation to
> the same positions by the Democrats. So perhaps Bloomberg will be the
> final act in cementing the Democrats' ideological irrelevancy.
E.J. Dionne, whose politics are tepid but who is not stupid, said on some TV show the other night that he doubted Bloomberg would run for precisely that reason. He knows that he'd take votes from Dems and hand the Reps the presidency, and he doesn't want that to happen. He may be right. But a guy who could easily afford to spend $1 billion on a campaign might find his ego calling the shots.
Doug