Bloomberg considering run for president ?

[steelerfan]

Not a done deal but it would certainly be a very bad thing for the U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/bu...ting.html?_r=0


“People thought a billionaire couldn’t run for president,” Mr. Ackman told me in an interview on Monday. “Trump disabused everyone of that notion.”

Perhaps.

But Mr. Bloomberg, 73, who has expressed skepticism that a “short, Jewish, divorced billionaire” can be elected president, has explained repeatedly to anyone who will listen why he thinks it would be so challenging to win. And unlike other candidates, Mr. Bloomberg doesn’t want to run unless he can win.

According to friends, Mr. Bloomberg has long said he can’t run as a Republican, given his views on gun control and global warming. And he is convinced that he can’t run as a Democrat, given his strong connections to Wall Street, his wealth and his “stop and frisk” policies as mayor, which rankled civil liberties groups. (He was a lifelong registered Democrat and switched parties when he ran for mayor.)

That would leave him as an independent. He could easily afford to self-fund his campaign. He also could easily get on the ballot in all 50 states, and private polling he conducted years ago suggested he might be able to win a plurality of the popular vote, according to people close to him. But if he did not receive a majority of the Electoral College votes, he would then be at the mercy of the House to vote on the presidency. That’s when he would lose, he has told friends, because the lawmakers would vote along party lines.