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President Trump
Archimago at 1-26-2016 4:26 am
Jeez! It might really happen. He's still leading the GOP pack. Now it looks like Bloomberg could run as an independent. That would split the dem votes the way Nader did in 2000.

As a libertarian minded person, this might not be all bad. The last 2 presidencies have been allowed to draw more governmental power into the White House. If Trump were to get that position, congress might act in a bipartisan way to bri


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Archimago () says:
...bipartisan way to restrict the power of the president.
Nathan Tyree (Overwhelmed by existential angst) says:
That outcome is possible, but unlikely. Bloomberg, were he to run, has limited factional support which is almost entirely in New York and Florida. He would need to pull enough support from the Dems in BOTH states in order to flip the election. Current polling suggests that a Bloomberg run would pull evenly from Clinton and Trump (and in the case of a Sanders nomination, Bloomberg pulls more heavily from Trump than from Bernie).

All of that is highly academic, though. Cruz is the more likley nominee. And Cruz's support in a general election would be sub-Goldwater level.
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