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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
1. Why would any Sanders voter vote for Bloomberg the Oligarch?
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:04 AM
Feb 2016

Doesn't make any sense. He would draw support from HRC if anyone, and from the repubs.

yourout

(7,531 posts)
2. He will only get in when Hillary is dead as a candidate.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:11 AM
Feb 2016

Then will try to peel off independents in the general to give it to Trump.

in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)
4. That's their plan, but I agree it makes zero sense.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:32 AM
Feb 2016

People support Bernie to get $$$$$money$$$$$$ out of politics, to take our country back from the $$$$$Oligarchs$$$$$$ and and to take back the $$$$$$$billions/trillions$$$$$$$$ the 1% has stolen from us. No Bernie supporter is going to vote for ONE OF THE PERPETRATORS. Not even the Independents. Bloomberg is EXACTLY what we're fighting - a member of the 1%!

I don't know what they're thinking. Sticking Bloomberg in the GE SOLELY to take down someone like Bernie, is only going to anger the Progressives, Millennials, Independents and blue collar women and men! TWO BILLIONAIRES TRYING TO TAKE DOWN THE POPULIST. <--------That's a bad, bad, bad headline.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
5. I don't see that happening until the last primary, at least
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:32 AM
Feb 2016

No matter what, her superdeligates will keep her in the running. Until they jump ship. But I see this race like 2008, when Obama only won by a few hundred delegates.

 

stone space

(6,498 posts)
3. Splitting the Billionair Vote would not be a big problem if...
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:19 AM
Feb 2016

...there were more Billionaires around.

But as it is, given their tiny numbers, Billionaires would be well advised to stick together and vote as a block, in order to increase their influence.






Depaysement

(1,835 posts)
6. It's more complicated than that
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:39 AM
Feb 2016

He would jump in if Trump and Sanders won, representing his class (mostly a social liberal and mostly an economic conservative) in all respects. He's not jumping in if Kasich wins.

Much more than Bernie, he could never abide someone like Trump as President. He thinks he paid his dues and deserves to be President. So for Trump to win just wouldn't do; it would bruise his ego hard.

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