Poll: Bloomberg Can’t Make It Anywhere For Presidency
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- February
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially said last night in a op-ed in the New York Times that he’s officially not running for the presidency as an independent candidate.
And here’s a good reason why: A Quinnipiac Poll today showed that Bloomberg could not break out of single digits in three-way presidential matchups in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
“Maybe Mayor Michael Bloomberg realizes that New York line, ‘if you can make it there you can make it anywhere,’ doesn’t always work in politics,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “In much of the rest of the country, Bloomberg wasn’t that well known or well regarded.”
In the op-ed piece, Bloomberg said: “I listened carefully to those who encouraged me to run, but I am not — and will not be — a candidate for president. I have watched this campaign unfold, and I am hopeful that the current campaigns can rise to the challenge by offering truly independent leadership.”
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
