The Mirage of Bloombergism

By Matthew Yglesias
Nice article by ex-colleague Nick Confessore, noting that if you judge by issue positions Michael Bloomberg just seems like a standard-issue Democrat. Quite so. He could, of course, adopt some new, more right-wing views to make himself more centrist, but doing that strategically would only further demonstrate the vacuity of the enterprise.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/01/the-mirage-of-bloombergism/47723/