People are suggesting that if he ran for President in a few key states and won, it could prevent either major party from winning an electorial victory, and, Bloomberg could proceed to build a coalition type government with his electorial votes, and, a compromising Presidnet, be it Republican, or, Democratic.
2007-06-25 02:59:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Who knows? I certainly don't.
What I'd like to see in the next election would be for Bloomberg to win the presidency outright. And for the houses of Congress to be split. I don't care who gets which house.
I don't think Bloomberg would side with either party on a consistent basis and the two main parties would have to really compromise to accomplish anything. That would be something we haven't seen in at least 30 years.
If you are old enough to remember back that far you will remember there was a lot less visible animosity between the parties then. All this partisan bickering has gotten completely out of hand. Something needs to be done to squelch the my way or the highway attitude so prevalent in Congress today.
2007-06-25 03:23:53 · answer #1 · answered by namsaev 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone wrote this in response to a question that I recently asked and I believe this to be the reasoning behind Bloomberg's recent decision to become an Independent:
Third party voters are either not thinking clearly or do not understand how government works. If a third party candidate is ever elected president he would be the most useless piece of furniture in the White House. With no one on his side in the Congress he will be pretty much at their mercy.
Pretty much every third party candidate is either an idealist from some single issue minority group or is running as a spoiler. Right now the only likely third party candidate will be Michale Bloomberg the current Mayor of NYC. He was a life long democrat and switched to republican to run for mayor because he could not get the democratic nomination. He just changed his registration to Independent.
He will probably enter the race if the primary election pits Rudy Guiliani against Hillary Clinton. His job will be spoiler. He will be in the race to make sure Hillary carries New York. The democrats fear Rudy because of how much even liberal Manhattan liberals loved him after 9/11. If too many vote for Rudy, Hillary would not carry her own state in the Electoral College. That would be quite an embarrassment and since New York's eastern time zone votes early they fear such an occurrence would adversely affect her in the West Coast.
2007-06-25 10:05:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would screw up the dems even more than Nader. Dems typically have over 85% of the jewish vote, about half of them would stray off and vote for him. So would new Yorkers, giving republicans probably the first chance of taking New York
Remember, Ross Perot got 19% of the popular vote running as an independant against Bush sr. and Clinton. Many people say that if he didn't run Clinton wouldn't have stood a chance.
2007-06-25 10:03:34 · answer #3 · answered by New Jersey Steve 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Bloomber spells trouble for Republicans not Democrats.
2007-06-25 10:11:06 · answer #4 · answered by Fern O 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well he certainly has the coins for it.
2007-06-25 10:02:58 · answer #5 · answered by Tom S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋