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Poll: Bloomberg Can’t Make It Anywhere For Presidency

Posted by: Joseph Spector - Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 28, 2008

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially said last night in a op-ed in the New York Times that he’s officially not running for the presidency as an independent candidate.

And here’s a good reason why: A Quinnipiac Poll today showed that Bloomberg could not break out of single digits in three-way presidential matchups in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

“Maybe Mayor Michael Bloomberg realizes that New York line, ‘if you can make it there you can make it anywhere,’ doesn’t always work in politics,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.  “In much of the rest of the country, Bloomberg wasn’t that well known or well regarded.”

 
 
 
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8 Responses to “Poll: Bloomberg Can’t Make It Anywhere For Presidency”


  1. WaltTrombone

    Didn’t work so well for Rudy, either.

  2. Sara R

    Hillary is finding it out too.

  3. the consultant

    Bloomberg’s plans include challenging elliot spitzer
    for governor after the mayor completes his term…
    He also has a 9/11 problem that needs to be resolved
    prior to any run for higher office..there are over 8000
    first responders who have not yet been compensated for
    the serious diseases they sustained working on the pile
    for months at a time like cancers, respiratory illnesses
    etc…those represent a large block of voters who are
    not presently inclined toward the mayor because of the
    positions his lawyers have taken with regard to
    disposing of the case quickly

  4. Ethan Edwards

    Bless his Moderate-Republican heart. But the Consultant
    is indirectly plugging a certain law firm,
    and there also is strong disagreement about how many
    of those cases really can be attributed to Sept. 11.

    It apparently is not as “matter of fact” as the
    Consultant presents it to be.

  5. ed

    Indeed, Furniture Man/Patriot. So far as Bloomberg goes, he’s probably incorruptible, but has too much mother hen in him. Preferable, though, to Spitzer any day.

  6. the consultant

    ethan..trust me..the class has been certified…that
    means the injuries were sustained at ground zero..
    that means the city is liable ..the question of who
    gets what is the only remaining issue…to stall this
    claim any further does a great disservice to our
    first responders …should (god forbid) we have another
    attack it seems to me there should be no doubt that
    if our emt’s fire workers and police are asked to
    clean up that if the are exposed to the deadly brew
    of toxins that existed at ground zero and do become
    ill the least they can expect is to be compensated
    by those who have asked them to protect the rest of us
    Because if that is not the case then why should they
    put their lives on the line, which by the way they
    do gladly. However that air was not fit to breath
    there were 165,000 tyvac suits still in the warehouse
    and the law is clear that if you instruct people
    to work a site you have the obligation to make sure
    it is safe…the site was not safe..Whitman knew it
    and Rudy knew it….

  7. Ethan Edwards

    Ed, You’re more “polished” than that. But you were
    thinking of Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys.

    Consultant, I didn’t say you were wrong. I said
    there was a lot of debate about it, and I also
    used the word “apparently.” Bill Clinton gave
    me parsing lessons.

    If you are correct, then I hope it’s resolved soon.
    Your explanation seems credible to me.

  8. ed

    Don’t call me Polish. (Although I count some Polish people among my closest friends.)



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