View from the ‘Bridge

We’ve all now heard interesting news of late about NYC Mayor (and Medford native) Michael Bloomberg’s ditching the GOP for Independent status. Of course speculation is that this signals his serious exploration of an Indy bid for President.

SurveyUSA has just released a 16 State poll of the dynamics of a three-way races with Bloomberg as an independent. What suprises me is that, more times than not, a Bloomberg candidacy actually hurts the Republicans. Since the speculation of his Independent candidacy begins, I’ve been arguing that it would hurt the Democrats the most, especially since independent voters generally trend towards the conservative side of things.
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