If Mike Bloomberg is the Democratic nominee, will you vote for him in November?

Michael Bloomberg thinks you should vote for Donald Trump...NOT!

bloomberg tells trump 'you fight like a cow!' in SCORCHING new campaign ad

we truly have the discourse digital utopians always promised us

the sheer fucking gall of this asshole:

https://www.axios.com/bernie-sanders-mike-bloomberg-delegate-race-bee5b692-a0ca-449a-a714-4c212ad15010.html

the sheer fucking gall of this asshole, beseeching other candidates to drop out of a race in which he hasn't even appeared on a ballot yet. i'm no Mayor Pete fan and obviously he's got a tough road to hoe but he's got the most fucking delegates right now!

Forget siphoning votes from Bloomberg, what about the votes that Sanders is siphoning away from ME (forgot to mention, just inherited $8 billion, declaring my candidacy next week, everybody gets a sandwich with as many toppings as you like with a max of three toppings).

Offer a pickle on the side and you've got my vote

fwiw Bloomps entering the race is kinda good for Bernie

Obviously Bloomberg could see his #'s keep growing, or they could shrink, but the scenario where he stalls out at ~16%, enough to make Biden's fall much worse and to blunt momentum for Buttigieg, but without coming particularly close to Sanders, is a really good one for Bernie.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) February 19, 2020

^i wouldn't go so far to say that it's "good" yet - there are a lot of different ways this could go - but the scenario silver describes seems like the most likely one to me. hopefully he'll fall on his face (or get pushed) in the debate tonight

it seems pretty apparent to me that Bernie's path to the nom is similar to Trump's in 2016 and another bad centrist jumping in the race is more likely to help him

obviously I've been eating crow on political matters a lot lately but I still don't see how Bloomberg develops any sort of constituency. he's gonna suck in this debate

I hope Bloomberg's rise is based on the media/electorate being bored with the field like the clown cars of past GOP primaries. Assume Steyer has his turn coming up soon.

re frogbs' last point

I wrote this in November 2018. pic.twitter.com/KqT9rWLdmK

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) February 18, 2020

I expect the moderators will be very friendly to Bloomberg and very harsh to Bernie tonight. That's his best hope, because otherwise he's walking into a buzzsaw.

A lot going on here. https://t.co/MaCSxi0wLi pic.twitter.com/StfoPNEqqE

— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) February 19, 2020

Statler & Waldorf are my 2nd and 3rd choices btw

I'm expecting lots of 'I'd like to answer your question...with a personal check' responses.

I know no one agrees with me but Warren is temperamentally a moderate and ideologically a progressive and SHE is who all the people dissatisfied with the choice of Biden, Buttigieg, Bloomberg should coalesce around, because for most Dem voters ideology doesn't mean much and they are trying to choose the KIND of person who they want to be President. I'm not saying it's likely to happen but all I'm saying is it's immensely frustrating to see the entire political class wringing itself dripping over "WHY isn't there a candidate who's NOT BERNIE and DOESN'T HAVE ALL THESE NEGATIVES" -- she's *right there*!

otm

right, she has different negatives

boobs iirc

i've said it before but i think people have just absolutely pundit-brained themselves into being convinced she can't beat Trump.

If Elizabeth Warren is so great, why hasn't she plied me with craft beer and a panini?

but she will take a selfieeeeeeeee

anecdotal evidence - recently learned one of my cousins is a Pete supporter. His concerns about Warren were based on her not being capable to run a campaign effectively against Trump (exhibits a and b: taking the bait on the Pocahantas thing, and the clumsy "leak" about Bernie saying a woman couldn't be President).

I agree on the latter point, although am baffled at how he thinks Pete would run a better campaign against Trump or be a better President.

xps

Anybody that's not a campaign manager or a DNC officer should quit worrying about "electability". Esp given how bad we all are at gauging it. The last polyp-pants that both parties thought was unelectable is smearing BK Chicken Fry grease on White House paintings.

Just vote who you want rn.

I mean at this point i feel like the electability rubric being used is "lol yr zing game needs work"

I'm waiting to decide between Bernie and Warren based on what happens in NV and SC

Warren's campaign tanking is her and her team's fault, the same way Bernie not winning last time was his and his team's fault. You can whinge all you like but her numbers were in decline long before any "erasure" set in, and it's not like the Bernie campaign suffered from the lack of coverage/hilariously skewed headlines. and I mostly like Warren.

So what you're saying is it's a DNC conspiracy?

Booker and I even daresay Beto were somewhat more palatable than some of the losers we're still stuck with, but that's how it goes on this bitch of an earth.

inclined to agree w Simon tbh, I just don't think she's run a good campaign (Harris' was even worse - peaked early/confused plays for both the middle and the left etc.)

After being gaslit about the lack of coverage of Bernie for roughly 1.5 election cycles, I have less than zero sympathy for people claiming "erasure" of Warren. She consistently got OVERPLAYED compared to Bernie until his lead on her and consistent lead in overall national polls became so clear that they couldn't ignore it anymore. She's losing, tough shit.

And I, too, like Warren herself. She's my second choice and far above any other.

xpost I would say pretty much all of the candidates were preferable to Bloomberg

yup

even Williamson?

or Gabbard?

williamson, maybe. gabbard, probably not.

williamson just for ~vibes~

forgot about gabbard, don't know how much worse she could be that bloomie? though ppl on Twitter say she's a Russian bot

someone tell me bernie is definitely not picking gabbard for vp, please

bernie is definitely not picking gabbard for vp

thank u

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive)
Posted: February 19, 2020 at 1:11:36 PM
After being gaslit about the lack of coverage of Bernie for roughly 1.5 election cycles, I have less than zero sympathy for people claiming "erasure" of Warren. She consistently got OVERPLAYED compared to Bernie until his lead on her and consistent lead in overall national polls became so clear that they couldn't ignore it anymore. She's losing, tough shit.

I think is pretty demonstrably untrue! A quick glance at the big papers shows Bloomberg, Buttigieg, and Bernie hogging the headlines daily since December. Even Klobuchar’s ‘momentum’ is a bigger story.

Bernie hogging the headlines daily since December

citation needed

I know no one agrees with me but Warren is temperamentally a moderate and ideologically a progressive and SHE is who all the people dissatisfied with the choice of Biden, Buttigieg, Bloomberg should coalesce around, because for most Dem voters ideology doesn't mean much and they are trying to choose the KIND of person who they want to be President. I'm not saying it's likely to happen but all I'm saying is it's immensely frustrating to see the entire political class wringing itself dripping over "WHY isn't there a candidate who's NOT BERNIE and DOESN'T HAVE ALL THESE NEGATIVES" -- she's *right there*!

yeah, but she would try to implement a big tax on people with more than $50 million! she can't do that! because that would...i mean she just can't do that, it's too extreme!

The thing is that the media funnily enough wants to write stories about exciting things. Bernie being mostly steady was never a good story, Warren falling, but not crashing like Biden, isn't really a good story either.

Fun fact: It took until four days ago for Bernie to beat Warrens peak back in mid-October in the 538 polling average. She ran a good campaign, imo, it just didn't work. I read a review of Pikettys new book that he dubs 'Brahmins' those liberals who are okay with most leftist policy, just not higher taxes. I think what happened with Warren kinda proves him right on that.

I think is pretty demonstrably untrue! A quick glance at the big papers shows Bloomberg, Buttigieg, and Bernie hogging the headlines daily since December. Even Klobuchar’s ‘momentum’ is a bigger story.

think he might have meant 'warren was all over the news that I consume'

I really, really don't think Warren's campaign failing was down to policy.

Me neither

(sorry if using the past tense there upsets anyone but I really don't see a comeback in her future)