A Bloomberg Presidential Bid Was Always a Pipe Dream

We will never know which policies Michael Bloomberg would have emphasized had he jumped into the 2016 Presidential race. But one thing’s for sure: he’s in favor of full employment for political consultants and other operatives. According to the Times’s story on his decision not to run, the former mayor’s staff had “covertly assembled several dozen strategists and staff members, conducted polling in 22 states, drafted a website, produced television ads and set up campaign offices in Texas and North Carolina.”