Underestimate Michael R. Bloomberg at your own risk

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Media mogul and billionaire Michael Bloomberg was not expected to be mayor of N.Y.C. in the first place. It was supposed to be Mark J. Green (a former Nader protege), Fernando Ferrer (the then-Bronx Borough President), and Peter Vallone (socially conservative White Catholic ethnic). Any one of these men could have been a presidential contender after 9/11 with leading the city. Bloomberg won in a upset, won reelection in 2005 and **2009** (he changed the city rules to run for a third term as Mayor). Bloomberg could gain traction if Trump, Sanders, Clinton are too negative or polarizing for the country. I don't think he will win, but underestimate him at your own peril.

http://web.archive.org/web/20011001073806/http://www.vallone2001.com/index.cfm

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/nyregion/democrats-run-in-the-shadow-cast-by-mayor.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/green-takes-rudy-win-path-center-key-victory-article-1.939059

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I'm just saying that there is a group of voters that despise Sanders, Clinton, Trump. They are true centrists in this country that could say no more left/right politics. We'll see.

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I'm also pretty sure that bronz4141 is not a Bloomberg supporter. I think he's just pointing the fact that the media constantly underestimates Bloomberg and that anything could happen. A significant portion of the media believed that Bloomberg would lose the 2001 and 2009 mayoral elections, but he proved them wrong.

Bloomberg would not come close to winning the presidency though.

He won a landslide in 2005 against Fernando Ferrer, who was vying to be the first Latino mayor of New York City. Imagine if Ferrer had beaten Bloomberg in 2005.