Don't forget: He's a very rich man with very rich friends. And he's very popular here.
Furthermore, while I could be mistaken, the current anti-two party mood, expressed in polls like this one (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3242551&page=1), seems much stronger than in recent elections.
If, God forbid, 2008 comes down to a Subway Series, I'll probably vote for Mike over Rudy or Hillary. And I'm not entirely convinced it will be a protest vote.
On 6/20/07, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> 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.