Is Michael Bloomberg electable nationally?

[Stranger in a strange land]

I could imagine that in a 2016 Timeline where Sanders gets the Democratic nomination, Bloomberg runs a Third Party Candidacy in which he spends $1.5 billion or so and ends up with around 3% of the PV. He gets heavily attacked by both Sanders and Trump as a tool of Wall Street. His campaign targets NJ and CT the way McMullin targeted Utah, and ends up getting about 10% in each. In 2020 he'll be old news, so he'd do even worse.

[Rjjr77]

He's just about the worst possible candidate. He only has appeal to people making six figures or over.

He appeals to people who are fiscally responsible as well. Morris County, N.J. types. Cincinnati and Cleveland, OH types.

Yeah blacks in Cincy and Cleveland aren't going to turn out for him, and the guns and soda bans are going to keep the working class whites far away from him

[Fuzzy Bear]

Only if the country is ready for an Adenauer-age head of state (Bloomberg will be 78 in 2020).

Who are the leading contenders for the Democrats now?  Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden?  Think about it; Biden's just as old, Sanders will be older, and, yes, Madame Secretary will also be 73.  This is your Democratic Party, folks.  Not that the GOP is a WHOLE lot younger.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

No way, and I doubt be could even make it to Super Tuesday in a D primary.

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The talk of Bloomberg running was all from Hillary hacks like Ed Rendell trying to use that threat to hurt Bernie in the primary. The candidate running against the billionaires would easily have beaten two billionaires.

[NOVA Green]

Michael Who???

Seriously, although I might know who the dude is, he doesn't have any real name recognition outside of Metro NYC, even in Liberal Democratic activist circles, let alone what it would take to beat Trump in the 2020 Pres GE.

Dem's obviously need a relative outside or insurgent style candidate with a proven history, background, and experience of winning elections in small-town and rural America (Preferably from the MidWest or West), and not someone who can be easily stereotyped as an "insider" in Beltway Politics type of dude.

Sure if the Trump administration collapses dramatically as we roll towards 2020, I can see Bloomberg being a contender, but if not we need a Democratic challenger that is perceived as being completely outside the system, and quite frankly someone from NYC isn't going to play so well in the Heartlands, let alone rural and small-town historically Democratic leaning areas for decades that swung hard for Trump in '16.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

As an indie, he would deny the Democrats needed votes in high end suburbs making it impossible to beat Trump.

Something like 45-40-15.

[Sir Mohamed]

I doubt it. Aside from the fact that his time has actually passed (he’s 75 or so), the current political climate is way too divided. He couldn’t win either primary and would lose as a third party/independent candidate in a three-way-race; even with flawed candidates like Clinton and the Trumpster. Maybe he could win as Dem or GOP nominee without winning the primaries (which is, of course, virtually impossible). But only against a far-right or left-winger with scandals.