****OFFICIAL*** Mike Bloomberg for president (1 Viewer)

[culdeus]

Educate me. I recognize that things work differently in different states. What I'm accustomed to is that the identity of the delegates change depending upon which candidates win the delegates from a particular location. Is that not the way you believe it works?

This is usually not at all how it works. Delegates are usually party hacks that jerk off to their cable news network of their choice each night. They are told by their party leadership in their state that they are there for XYZ candidate and must vote for them regardless of their affiliation. If they can't get their one job right they pretty much never will be invited back. At the end of the day if you are elected a delegate you can do whatever the hell you want, they try to control the process, but in the end they can quite literally go off the reservation once they arrive and are seated.

In general, they try to NOT apply supporters as delegates unless it's a forgone conclusion like Mitt or Bush or something then you just roll with it. It's been so long since a convention was really in question that people has forgotten what a cluster these can become if there isn't a clear nominee.

What I'm seeing in a quick google search doesn't really support this. It seems like delegates are generally supposed to pledge support to a particular candidate when they apply to be a delegate. Then delegates are sent based upon those pledges.

Yes, but there is nothing preventing them from going rouge once seated. They are basically making a pinky swear.

OK, maybe we're not all that far apart on process, we're just apart on people's likely behavior. You think there are a lot of people who will openly pledge to support Trump even though they don't actually want Trump to win? I don't.

There are a lot of party hacks that would kill for the opportunity to go to the convention. The only thing they require is for you to show up and cast your ballot when asked for whomever you were sent to cast it. In some precincts they can't even muster up enough people that can take off a week of work to go so the party just gets to hand pick people at that point. I.e. in my precinct the GOP got to send 3 people last time instead of the apportioned 1 because they couldn't muster a delegate from a couple far flung precincts. I imagine this happens alot.

When the #### gets real and they can't figure it out, then you better hope you got the right people on board.

 

[jamny]

The way Bloomberg muscled into a 3rd term still bothers me. I'll listen to him if he runs but I doubt I'll vote for him.

 

[fantasycurse42]

He is by far the most qualified and least crazy. He can't be bought either.

 

[Rirruto]

The delegates are pledged for the first ballot only. They can do as they please after that.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I really don't know much about Bloomberg. I just looked at his policy stances as described on Wikipedia and I don't see much to dislike.

Yeah...I'm intrigued.

 

[skol asylum]

Being a fiscal conservative is not about slashing programs that help the poor, or improve health care, or ensure a social safety net. It's about insisting services are provided efficiently, get to only the people that need them, and achieve the desired results. Fiscal conservatives have hearts too but we also insist on using our brains, and that means demanding results and holding government accountable for producing them.

To me, fiscal conservatism means balancing budgets not running deficits that the next generation can't afford. It means improving the efficiency of delivering services by finding innovative ways to do more with less. It means cutting taxes when possible and prudent to do so, raising them overall only when necessary to balance the budget, and only in combination with spending cuts. It means when you run a surplus, you save it; you don't squander it. And most importantly, being a fiscal conservative means preparing for the inevitable economic downturns and by all indications, we've got one coming.

 Michael Bloomberg, speech to UK Conservative Party, September 30, 2007[77]

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[bud29]

If he truly doesn't want Sanders or Trump being president, he needs to get in ASAP. Siphon some of the centrist Dem voters from Clinton. Get some anti-Hillary voters from Bernie. Make it a 3-horse race. If he waits until the general, Trump wins in a landslide.

 

[eoMMan]

Is he the guy we hope thought up the ban on large, sugary sodas?

 

[Juxtatarot]

Even if Bloomberg can beat the others in popular vote (big if), it seems to be a real stretch that he could get the 270 electoral votes. If the House decides, they will likely elect the Republican candidate even if it's Trump or Cruz.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

It looks like this happening

Hey Rove - Curious why you're saying this?

Any new news?

 

[Snoopy]

He announced today he is NOT running:  http://www.npr.org/2016/03/07/469558044/bloomberg-says-he-wont-run-for-president-and-risk-electing-trump-or-cruz?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160307 

Says his candidacy could have given Trump or Cruz the Presidency.