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    Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder of VC firm Social Capital, thinks the American political system is broken. But he sees a way to fix it: get Mike Bloomberg elected the next US president. In fact, he believes in it so much that he's willing to temporarily shut down his firm, and use its resources on backing Bloomberg's presidential bid instead, if he decides to run. "I've told them (Bloomberg's folks) that most of us would pause our day jobs to get him elected. I've offered to run 'Growth' for the period of his campaign," Palihapitiya told Business Insider. "We are 100% serious — he needs to run." What ... (full story)

If Bloomberg runs now, Trump will win
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If Bloomberg runs now, Trump will win
Yeah assuming Trump is the GOP nominee ..... Bloomberg is socially liberal and would take far more votes from the Democrats than the Republicans. If he runs, the republicans would win easily.
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Means USD strong?
it way too late for him to enter
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it way too late for him to enter
No it isn't .... the democrats & republicans haven't even entered their candidates yet.
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No it isn't .... the democrats & republicans haven't even entered their candidates yet.
They are already well on the way to deciding the nominee and bloomgerg does not even have a ground game set up.

Its over
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He got to have balls to try to get in first.
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They are already well on the way to deciding the nominee and bloomgerg does not even have a ground game set up.

Its over
If Bloomberg runs it won't be as a Democrat or Republican, he would be running independently. The major parties don't finish selecting their candidates until July - so if Bloomberg announces in July that he is running, they would all be starting at the same time. If he announced it now he would have a big head start.
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  • Posted: Mar 5, 2016 3:50pm
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