Bloomberg Seriously Contemplating Presidential Bid -- Political Wire

Bloomberg Seriously Contemplating Presidential Bid

A New York magazine cover story makes clear that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seriously testing the waters for a presidential run in 2008 as an independent. However, he would delay until early 2008 any announcement.

Said GOP strategist Mark McKinnon: "In any third-party effort, you want to start late. You gotta catch lightning in a bottle, not let yourself get stale. If Perot had waited to start his campaign until after his daughterís wedding, he would probably have been president.î

"The biggest downside to starting late is that it makes it harder to get on the ballot in all 50 states. But here the putative Bloomberg campaign has been blessed by fate with a ready-made solution: Unity08, a grassroots outfit in Washington that intends to field a centrist presidential ticket (selected via an online convention in June 2008) and handle the ballot-access hassles. Though the group may sound a little sketchy, two of its prime movers are Doug Bailey, the Republican consultant who nearly engineered an upset win for Gerald Ford in 1976, and Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carterís White House chief of staff."

December 4, 2006

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