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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Sure, "quixotic third-party candidacy" has a nice ring to it, but . . .

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced tonight that he is quitting the Republican party and changing his affiliation to independent.

The announcement came after Mr. Bloomberg gave a speech denouncing partisan gridlock in Washington, stirring renewed speculation that he is preparing to run as an independent or third-party candidate in 2008. - New York Times, June 19, 2007
Assuming that Bloomberg decides to enter the presidential race with the goal of winning, I can't see why it would make more sense for him to run as an independent than as a Democrat. Is there some Byzantine setup in place that would exclude him, at this still-early date, from critical party caucuses and primaries? Because, otherwise, why not just flip all the way back to being a Democrat, spin whatever forgotten-in-a-week narrative is necessary to fix yourself in the popular mind as a legitimate Democrat, and drive on?

It would be a long shot any way you sliced it, so why not an approach (running as a Democrat) that has occasionally borne fruit in American political history, instead of being the latest quixotic third-party candidate to go nowhere?

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