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"One reason Democrats are bad at politics is that they concern themselves too much with facts and not enough with impressions."

Oh that's a good one!

It's true that Biden will lose. But the others will lose worse. Except maybe ...

I have a friend who is generally to the right but not as ardently as I am. He thinks Bloomberg has a chance at being the nominee.

It's not a bad idea I think. Since I think it's true that Biden will lose badly, and the other cartoons will lose worse ... Bloomberg may be their wisest choice because he's probably the hardest for Trump to attack -> he appears to be the only sane democrat, once his 4 trillion ads get out there people will 'know' him. Then he can serve the purpose of Biden (a seeming non-cartoon-progressive-communist anything-but-trump) without Biden's baggage not to mention faltering mind due to age.

I know Bloomberg has no charisma -> but am I right that he might be their best bet to try to get the spineless swing voters who will decide the election?

I still think we're looking at a virtual landslide barring some big negative event.

Bloomberg has two big problems in the Democrat party:

1) The radical blacks, especial from NYC, like Sharpton, hate him for stop & frisk and

2) The AOC socialists and the Berners hate him because he’s a totally establishment connected billionaire.

Along with his demonstrated disrespect for the Democrat voters, shown by his refusal to: participate in the debates, participate in the early primaries, and do any public fund raising, those factors are likely to diminish his chances of winning the nomination.

Big problem the Democrats have is that we are just a few weeks from the Iowa Caucus and the primary season and nobody in the Democratic field has caught fire yet.

In 90 days, this thing is going to be pretty much over as we will be past Iowa, past NH, past SC, FL, OH, MI, IL and "Super Tuesday".

Now four years ago, as we were approaching the Iowa Caucus, Donald Trump was DOMINATING the news cycle and had been for months on end. He already had MONTHS of rallies in which he was packing them in by the thousands. We see NOBODY on the Democrat side with that level of enthusiasm.

Only Breadline Bernie comes close in terms of enthusiasm. The Biden rallies are nothing but a bunch of really old people in small halls with some hecklers sprinkled in.

I think this nomination is Bernie's to lose. And if he is nominated, Trump could well carry every state except for Vermont.

‘He thinks Bloomberg has a chance at being the nominee.’

I do too...

‘I still think we’re looking at a virtual landslide barring some big negative event.’

Trump may very well win the election, but look for a lesser margin of victory in the EC...MI and PA looking like tossups...

I have a friend who is generally to the right but not as ardently as I am. He thinks Bloomberg has a chance at being the nominee.

It's not a bad idea I think. Since I think it's true that Biden will lose badly, and the other cartoons will lose worse ... Bloomberg may be their wisest choice because he's probably the hardest for Trump to attack -> he appears to be the only sane democrat, once his 4 trillion ads get out there people will 'know' him. Then he can serve the purpose of Biden (a seeming non-cartoon-progressive-communist anything-but-trump) without Biden's baggage not to mention faltering mind due to age.

I agree with that - tho it must be said that whereas Trump will be 74 in June, Bloomberg will be 78 next month.
Reagan announced he had Alzheimers’ Disease when he was 83 . . . do we actually want to elect someone who’d be only about a year younger than that four years after his inauguration?

I still think we're looking at a virtual landslide barring some big negative event.

There’s a first time for everything; who actually thought that Obama would win before he did? But no sitting president’s reelection bid has ever been defeated by anyone who had not first been a state governor. And the only governor now in the Democrat field is Duval Patrick - which doesn’t appear to be a name to reckon with.