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It’s hard to make centrism sexy. In case you haven’t already seen the news, Unity ‘08 is scaling significantly back. From a letter sent to their mailing list: At the current moment, we don’t have enough members or enough money to take the next step toward achieving ballot access in 50 states, reaching the goal of establishing [...]
Two Bloomberg-oriented articles have caught my eye in the past couple of days. First, from MSNBC, we see that Bloomberg could very well be a man after my own heart — a politics and stats junkie: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has quietly been polling and conducting a highly sophisticated voter analysis in all 50 states as [...]
Over the weekend in Oklahoma, there was a meeting of Bloomberg with some centrist folks with ties to Washington, from which a few of us were cautiously wondering if we might see a viable third party candidate (Bloomberg, specifically) emerge. The New York Times suggests, however, that Obama’s victory in Iowa, and subsequent surge may be [...]
I’ve been half-expecting to see desire for a centrist platform to be raised during the ‘08 campaign crumble under the weight of details, as well as momentum from the Dem/GOP duopolistic juggernaut. So, I was very encouraged to see this article in the Washington Post: New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a potential independent candidate [...]
While driving home this evening, I pondered, in the wake of Lieberman’s endorsement of McCain—what if McCain doesn’t win the GOP nomination, and what if Unity ‘08 doesn’t snag Bloomberg? Unity ’08’s rules call for a ticket featuring both a Democrat and a Republican. Could Unity ‘08 run McCain and Lieberman (assuming “Connecticut for Lieberman” is an [...]
A couple of days ago, post appeared on Third Party Watch which caught my eye: I’ve been asked many times to work on some sort of fusion activity between Libertarians, Greens and/or Constitution Party members, but have never been presented with any long term solution which looked viable. Obviously, the Ron Paul campaign has a lot [...]
I thought that conventional wisdom indicated that Bloomberg actually meant it when he said that he wasn’t planning to run for President. However, an article at HuffPo suggests that conventional wisdom might be shifting again: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been receiving foreign policy briefing sessions on a wide variety of topics, providing the strongest [...]
It looks like Bloomberg is starting to be a little less coy about his not running for President. From Reuters: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he cannot win the U.S. presidency and won’t run, the strongest statement to date about his intentions for the 2008 presidential race. Bloomberg previously had said he had no plans [...]
Political Wire points to an AP article reminding us that Bloomberg isn’t a blemish-free candidate: Before his election as mayor in 2001, Bloomberg was the target of a sexual harassment suit by a female executive who accused him of making repeated raunchy sexual comments[...] I can’t help but think that if we seek perfect, wise saints as [...]
The Washington Wire Blog at wsj.com relays an announcement made by Mayor Bloomberg: I have filed papers with the New York City Board of Elections to change my status as a voter and register as unaffiliated with any political party. Although my plans for the future haven’t changed, I believe this brings my affiliation into alignment [...] |
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