Mike Bloomberg's TV Ads are really good

[stopbush]

Almost hate to say it, because he’s sort of a usurper. I don’t agree with buying a nomination, but give the devil his due. The ads are very effective.

[scheming daemons]

1. He should be spending that money on ads to support Democratic senate races

...and the eventual Democratic nominee (which won't be him).

[stopbush]

2. Well, he still can down the road. He certainly has the $ to support whoever he wants.

Right now that’s not where his head is.

[LonePirate]

3. His ads seem to be going after 45 but I have only seen a couple as I am not an early state voter.

[TwilightZone]

4. He'll likely do both. He spent $100+ million to help Dems in 2018.

Including $41 million on House races.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-democrats-donate.html

Source for the $100+ million:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/26/politics/bloomberg-ad-buy-democrats-midterms/index.html

He's also donating $10 million to House Dems dealing with impeachment this cycle.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/11/politics/nancy-pelosi-michael-bloomberg-donation-house-democrats/index.html

He more than likely won't be the nominee (I don't support his candidacy), but there's also little doubt he's going to try to help Dems win in big numbers again in 2020.

[Squinch]

6. He is. He just put up $10 million for Congressional Democrats.

[scheming daemons]

15. $10 million to Bloomberg is like $4 for you and me

Not impressed.

[doc03]

5. He is really going to get elected taking guns away

and bragging about shutting down 100s of coal fired power plants? He couldn't get elected dog warden in the Midwest.

[delisen]

12. I appreciate his honesty and his contributions to Democratic candidates

Bloomberg listens to people, states his own beliefs and positions and is willing to have a conversation.

Is it worse to spend ones own money or to take money from big corporations?

[jcmaine72]

16. If that doesn't work I'm sure his stance on banning soft drinks will hit a home run.

Bloomberg has always come across as a supercilious nanny-stater. That might have not have hurt him in Williamsburg or SoHo, but in the Mississippi Delta or the South Side of Chicago he might be at a disadvantage against someone just a pinch less condescending towards the poor.

[doc03]

19. That too wanting to tell us what to eat or drink. It is

things like that that lost our support in the rust belt.

[Squinch]

7. Democrats have ceded all advertising to the hate filled right. We REALLY need to do this. I'm glad

he has figured this out, and I wish the party as a whole would get a clue about PR and advertising.

[guillaumeb]

8. If Bloomberg were to run as a Republican,

he would represent a return to what passes for normalcy in the GOP.

But one hopes that this center right billionaire will not receive much support.

[delisen]

13. How many Democratic senators and reps bailed out the big banks?

and have actively passed legislation to massively benefit big banks and corporations?

I don't know that he is more "center right" in his positions than many Democrats.

Some of our candidates have been close to Bain Capital-Mitt Romney's company.

Bloomberg certainly has been willing to explore things like cash transfer payments to poor people and he has been solidly pro choice.

Few people are as rich as Bloomberg-but our Democratic field has a number of multimillionaires, including Joseph Biden.

Bloomberg's father was a Polish immigrant bookkeeper and his mother was a secretary-no silver spoon childhood. I think he worked his way through college.

He is definitely not a trumpian con man. He backed Clinton for president-and was certainly opposed to Trump.

[guillaumeb]

14. Far too many. You are correct.

And Bloomberg represents at best, the GOP of the 1960s. And that is a sign oh just how far the GOP has moved to the extreme right.

[snowybirdie]

9. Not effective

if folks tune then out! As I do.

[stopbush]

11. Whistling past the graveyard?

[California_Republic]

10. If you watch the Internet TV channels..

You will see a lot of them

[comradebillyboy]

17. They are vastly better than Steyer's...

[Skya Rhen]

18. If they were that effective, he would be in double digits. We can't say "it's still early" anymore.

Elections commence in several weeks.

[LanternWaste]

20. They're pablum, but they're good pablum.

I haven't had cable in ten or fifteen years, so network tele is my option. In north central Texas (the Dallas-Ft Worth area where I live) Bloomberg and Steyer are the only two primary ad buys I've seen (90% Bloom, 10% Steyer).

He hits all the right bullet points, but it's just so damned generic. Playing the Political Mad Libs game, he could be any candidate running for any position against anyone and it would all sound the same.

[stopbush]

21. I disagree entirely.

He is putting out his record as mayor on NYC. He is the only candidate in the race with that particular background, so how can it be generic?

Sounds to me like you’re trying to downplay the looming elephant in the Dem primary room.