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Jan CA primary's gonna be

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:57:00 +0000

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Jan CA primary's gonna be brutal.

Actually, moving up CA to Super Tuesday really changes the strategy - screw the Feb contests, hunker down on 3 early March free-for-alls plus *maybe just maybe* Georgia, and it's largely over. (and Bloomberg should likely do well in later NY/PA contests). So yeah, could be wild, really breaks things up 3 months out. Largely over by Mar 17, with a slight hangover run Apr 28 as needed. Tho Bloomberg's NE/Atlantic contests all in April (NJ in June)

Just for a sense of scale,

artappraiser — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:38:56 +0000

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Just for a sense of scale, people who watch NBC's local news this week in Los Angeles from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. will see NINE Michael Bloomberg ads — every day.

If someone watched just the 5 p.m. newscast all week — they would see 20 ads that are each one minute long. pic.twitter.com/s7BU9O5p1W
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) November 24, 2019

Note he spent that much to

artappraiser — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 21:19:41 +0000

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Note he spent that much to help in 2018 and he wasn't running then:

During the 2018 midterm cycle, Bloomberg spent over $100 million in a successful effort to help Democrats wrest control of the House away from Republicans.

This jives with my view of him as not being an egomaniac much less a narcissist. His main flaw is being a kind of control freak, he thinks he can make anything better and when he focuses on something,that he knows best how to solve the problem. No humility. Though he is a delegator, he chooses the "delegatees" very very carefully and never stops managing, closely, is famously known to prefer huge open office spaces where he sits with view of what everyone is up to.

I can think of one issue that would easily occur: disagreement with how DNC is handling things. If they disagreed with something he was doing, he'd swat them away like a fly. May already think they are doing everything wrong.

This is why the apology about stop and frisk was at first kind of shocking to me. You'd rarely hear "I was wrong" from that man. But then I thought again: if he thought an apology about anything was smart strategy, he would do it.. (And then there's also that he's like a female version of Miss Manners. )

I'm hoping his strategy is to

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 19:49:45 +0000

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I'm hoping his strategy is to help non-presidential races.l, many in districts that can't be too progressive anyway.

I don't see any downside

ocean-kat — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 18:44:25 +0000

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I don't see any downside either. But I support a progressive candidate. If his goal is to attack Trump it's a good strategy. If his goal is to elect a moderate nominee it's a bad strategy. He will get some votes and they'll come from moderates further splitting the moderate vote. The progressives aren't going to move to him nor will he be able to consolidate all the moderates behind him. Biden loses the most in this scenario though all the moderate candidates will be affected negatively. And he'll be a prefect foil for Sanders and Warren to attack.

I think the implication was

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:01:12 +0000

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I think the implication was this is *MUCH MUCH BETTER* than an actual serious Bloomberg campaign, that we get the funding that Steyer had been putting in and move on some decent platforms.
Of course Republicans will be using this technique in 2022/4 (not that Trump hasn't been doing this since 2017, but for personal gain)

I can't see much downside to

artappraiser — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 15:38:50 +0000

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I can't see much downside to this. Not the least of which because doing so he will drag the Overton window of the talking points of the current primary candidates over more towards the center. Normally that happens only after the primary is over and is not easy after right wing social media and Fox and friends and similar have applied some devastating branding to the frontrunners by picking out stuff they say and do in the primary.