Vote Michael Bloomberg For President!!

[BestSportsEntertainer]

His ads are everywhere else so why not? He's trying to buy the presidency, but I'm already sick of him.

[Jack-Hammer]

He's not got much of a chance. Something he said back in 2011 about how elderly cancer patients should be denied treatment in order to cut costs is coming back to bite him in the ass.

For one thing, if you've ever lost a parent or grandparent to cancer, someone saying something like that's gonna piss you off no matter which way you slice it or how you try to rationalize it. I lost my mother to cancer in November 2015, the sister she was closest to died of cancer in the summer of 2009 and her hubby died of it 13 months later so yeah, not exactly the sort of thing you want to hear from a Presidential candidate.

For another, a comment like that comes off like another example of a guy with more money than he knows what to do with that's out of touch with the concerns and problems that ordinary, every day mortal men and women face. According to CBS News, Michael Bloomberg is the 9th wealthiest person on Earth with a net worth estimated at $55.5 billion so it's not like he has anything to worry about. He doesn't even need any coverage or health insurance as he's so loaded that the most expensive treatments for whatever ails you won't even make a dent in his fortune. I have no idea how his finances are set up but you have to assume that just the interest the principle of his fortune generates over the course of a year is at least several billion. Back in 2008, Mitt Romney wrote an Op-Ed piece titled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" in which he decries the bailout for the American auto industry. When he ran for POTUS in 2012, this forgotten bit of writing made its way into the light and had a massive impact on Romney's campaign. Why? Because he came off as another rich, corporate executive completely out of touch with blue collar and/or working poor American citizens who, unlike him, didn't hold corporate positions in major companies in which they were paid salaries of $20 million a year.

In Bloomberg's case, this is bad for him. No matter how he'll try to rationalize it or word it in a way so as not to make it sound as horrible as it does, which Romney tried himself, all people are going to see and hear from such a statement is a filthy rich asshole who doesn't have to worry about sickness or medical bills telling them they or their elderly relatives lives simply don't matter as much. Entirely accurate? No, but that's how it'll feel to many.

[Big Nick Dudley]

I've never understood how purchasing tons of ads equals buying an election. It's still up to individual people whether they want to vote for that person on the advertisement or not.

[klunderbunker]

I've never understood how purchasing tons of ads equals buying an election. It's still up to individual people whether they want to vote for that person on the advertisement or not.

It's two fold.

1. Name recognition. If people aren't sure who to vote for and are voting anyway, they'll vote for the name they know. If Bloomberg is the name you see over and over on TV, he's the first one in your mind. This works WAY better in smaller elections.

2. Think of it like WWE: they might not be the best, but since they're a lot easier to find, people are going to know more about them. If Bloomberg buys up 10 commercial spots, that's ten commercial spots that Warren, Sanders, Biden etc. don't have and can't get their message out.

It isn't so much being the best candidate, but more about getting in people's minds more than others. A lot of it is catering to people who either haven't made up their mind or aren't paying that much attention. And no, it doesn't always, or even often, work.

[Big Nick Dudley]

Theoretically, I understand it. I get the idea behind why people say it. It just doesn't make practical sense to me. People who don't know a politician until the person's face is plastered all over their television set are probably not voting anyway. I have absolutely nothing to back that up with, just makes sense to me. Either way, I still don't think there's anything wrong with it. This is not a Bloomberg endorsement, either 😂😂

[Jeff Deliverer of Mail]

Fart noise lol, 100's of millions down the drain.

[Spidey]

Not necessarily. Dude can play the game now, even if he didn't win this one.

Not to invoke Godwin's law, but things would have looked a little different if Hitler stopped running the first time he lost an election.