I think people are fretting prematutely, because Bloomberg hasn’t participated in even one primary yet, let alone won one.
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People are realistically concerned about what absurd amounts of money can do to distort an election. If Bloomberg was running on his own merits, he’d have been out before Marianne Williamson.
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Bloomberg hit 19 percent support in a recent national poll though. Having access to nigh-unlimited financial resources really does make him a formidable contender for the nomination; we dismiss him at our peril.
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I like to think that the Dems are less stupid than the Repubs. This may prove me wrong.
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That’s understandable! That said, Tom Steyer, the other billionaire candidate, has pretty much gone nowhere as far as I know.
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Voting for an out-of-touch billionaire idiot like Bloomberg doesn’t make the Dems as stupid as the Republicans, but it could certainly indicate that they aren’t as much smarter than the Republicans as we’d all hoped they’d be.
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Steyer hasn’t spent as much the whole campaign as Bloomberg did in his first month. He’s also been building a following for three years with his campaign to remove Trump. Finally, there’s billionaire and there’s billionaire. One of the problems with billionaires is that they can drop several $B on something and still be a billionaire.
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Bloomberg is also a semi-celebrity who made his money in the media sector. Steyer is just a generic white wealthy guy.
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I won’t believe his campaign is dead until it has a stake through it’s heart.
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I agree in the abstract, but last October Bernie said,
“The people do have a right to know about the health of a senator, somebody who’s running for president of the United States – full disclosure,” Sanders said, pledging again release his full medical records.
He used that pledge to defuse concern over his heart attack, which fact gives the current refusal some context.
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Pretty underhanded tactics, like the ones pulled on Yang.
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Wow. Michael Harriot. I would read cereal boxes written by him.
And the ignoring of Warren was very much like an Infinity Gauntlet snap. After Iowa, with one last headline about how she can’t win, every major media outlet started ignoring her.
It really is like they are incapable of paying attention to more than one progressive at a time. For a long time, it was Sanders. Now that they can’t ignore Sanders, they forgot Warren.
Here’s a suggestion: ignore Bloomberg, at least until he does something noteworthy.
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Yes, but in the would you rather die in a 500 degree fire or a 5000 degree fire sense.
(I should probably soften that because we each have our opinion and we each get one vote. Unless you’re a billionaire, in which case you get … a lot more votes.)
(But really, I’m just looking for an analogy of choosing between two things, one of which is clearly better than the other but each hugely problematic.)
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other than bribing the DNC to change their debate rules
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God for a second there I thought that said “Elizabeth Warren Exits” and nearly had a heart attack.
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Same here.
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