Smart move on his part tbh. He's a cunning dude, just in the worst of ways. Hopefully someone shoots him in the head

Wtf are you serious. I'm f***ing disgusted at the people that are supporting this guy, with all the evidence in front of them that he's a total con artist.

His supporters are just as bad as/worse than Trump voters as far as I'm concerned.

Was in the barbershop today and presidential candidates popped up on the TV and some nigga yelled out Bloomberg!

People are dumb and dont pay attention to politics. When a candidate is in your face all the time, you vote for em. Thats why Trump
won

Vast majority of Americans don't vote
Vast majority of Americans who vote are poorly educated on who they're voting on

I'm not endorsing him, I'm just saying what his strategy is

I wouldn’t say “vast majority” there are about 209 million adults in America and around 135 million people who voted for the president last time. But yeah, the country is pretty misinformed

The idea of trump going up against Bloomberg after surviving impeachment and the mueller report is so irredeemably stupid that it might just happen

Yeah man, I mean -- those numbers are all relative. We have around half of our country voting, but compared to all of Western Europe they're polling around mid 70's to low 90's.

Australia has one of the highest voting turnouts with around 95% I believe, but that's because they have mandatory voting.

I think America has a problem. Election day isn't a day off, we have strict ID laws in the south, we have multiple elections a year which leads to voter fatigue, and people are misinformed and don't understand how to register to vote.

What do you think we should do to solve our (relative) low voting turnout?

bloomberg, can’t wait for the rigging. Literally capitalists will not lose, I love it

We have really 2 options:
1. Subvert the culture by promoting the ideas of voting in tv shows movies, music, popular culture in general
2. Making voting mandatory

In all honesty, the fact that elections aren’t a day off and the voter is laws don’t really stop that many people from voting if they really wanted to. Idk much about the ID laws, but it’s not that hard to get them in much of the country, and many jobs allocate hours off for their employers to vote. Even then, people are allowed to vote early if they want or mail in, so it’s not like they’re working too much to have it done. I think it all boils down to Americans convincing themselves that their votes mean nothing because “presidents have no power” or “I live in a red/blue state so it doesn’t matter who I vote for” or “all the politicians are the same.” Of the 2 options I gave, I think mandatory (or at least heavily legally encouraged) voting would be the most effective in increasing turnout

Also a follow up to my post, imagine if voting was mandatory, so third party candidates suddenly became viable. Less than a third of American adults voted for trump, same as Hilary. The last third could really pull their weight behind a third party candidate and end the system of Americans having to choose between only 2 unpopular candidates

I agree with your culture point. A lot of people are really tired and feel like the government is disingenuous. I don't think that's quite feasible, though. Influencing culture isn't something that you can fix with a law.

I definitely disagree with the Election Day being a day off. It's on a Tuesday!
Lower-income people can't take a day off to do that s***. Polls are usually closed by the time you're off work, too.

I live in Seattle, here we have mail-in ballots. That s*** is f***ing amazing. Every day it stares at me on my kitchen table until I open it up and vote. I feel like that's a good solution. But alas, most states don't have mail-in voting.

To your point about early voting actually -- it actually isn't a thing in a lot of places -- majority of States, mostly in the south, don't have early voting.

Yeah, that's definitely a possibility. I think it could definitely help with the people who abstained.

A big problem with the two-party system is the "winner-take all" system we have with legislative districts perpetuates it, as well.

In Europe, where they have multiple party systems, when are candidate gets 51% of the vote -- they don't automatically take all of the delegates.
They get the majority of the delegates, yes -- but the delegates are given out proportionally to how much percentage of the vote they got to whichever candidate ran.

A lot of people don't want to 'waste' their vote on a third party delegate cause of this.

major W if trump really gets washed by a 5'7 jew from his own state

"WhitePeopleHumor"

OMFG BERNIES COMING TO SEATTLE ON MONDAY!!!! IM COMING B****

Make no mistake Bloomberg is a plutocrat and not a capitalist.

Yooo the s***posting account I follow actually posted a DM of Bloomberg's team reaching out to them the other day I that s*** was photoshopped but it's actually real!?

My goodness...

its sorta the same thing

bloomberg name recognition too powerful. being known is one of the most powerful things in politics

Jesse Ventura became a governor. pretty sure Undertaker’s brother Kane is a mayor somewhere. ppl voting WWE wrestlers into office

foxbusiness.com/politics/wall-streets-message-to-biden-following-nyc-fundraiser-he-should-withdraw-he-has-no-chance

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