Bloomberg's campaign is a cynical ploy to buy the presidency with his limitless resources but the fact the DNC signed om and rigged the rules just to support him is proof itself that he's the wrong guy. The DNC is a hugely corrupt organization that supports whatever candidate's sensibilities are most closely aligned with its own. Invariably that candidate will be the most secretive and corrupt. People who support Bloomberg are walking around with their heads firmly up their asses.

Are they really "determined to stop Bernie"? If they really wanted to stop him they could have just said "Sorry, you're an independent". Okay, you could argue that would have been suicide and they are forced to take him as part of the party or risk the spoiler vote (another insanity of the two-party American rigged political duopoly).

You have to admit the whole debate qualification rules thing is kinda bogus just as the "debates" are themselves (and please why are there so damned many of them?) . What if Bernie or any candidate for that matter was polling at 20% with almost zero donors because he didn't need any money because he wasn't spending any money and just shows up said his thing and wins over voter's hearts with the message?

So to me just as Bloomberg's pouring gasoline on the problem of getting votes is obscene, so is any system that says you have to have donors at all. I come from a country where candidates don't spend most of their time begging for money from donors and it works just fine. Candidates get free air time in publicly funded elections - TV channels have to give that air time as part of their license grant - which is a privilege the government offers them in fair exchange for $ and public server broadcasting time.

@prometheus Oh, do I wish the US had publicly funded election campaigns with free TV air time and also a limit on the length of campaigns, but it will never happen here. So instead we have the legalized bribery of campaign contributions from the rich and corporations. That is the root of our political problems, we are a plutocracy, not a democracy...

I don't support Bloomberg's campaign because the presidency shouldn't be for sale but he's managed to buy his way into second place so even if he somehow becomes the nominee I'll vote for him because as little as I want him, even he's an improvement over the Cheetoh from Hell.

He offers the smallest margin of improvement than any of the other candidates but if that's all we get, I'll still take it.,