Reply #1: Love a good distortion in the morning.

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72 million Democrats.

55 million Republicans.

42 million independents.

Democrats need 13 million independents and no Republicans. Republicans need 30 million independents.

In a three-way split, the winner needs a minimum of 57 million. Which means that if all the independents and all the Republicans team up, which is what the WSJ is fantasizing, the spoiler wins! Because that would be 97 million against 72 million Dems. Or, even better, the Dem candidate is Hillary who is hated by the Dems (so how does she become their candidate? Oh, never mind.) and all the Dems vote for Bloomberg, too! 169 million votes for Bloomberg!

Except Bloomberg is too liberal for most Republicans. Too short, too divorced, too Jewish. So he's gotta attract the Dems! 114 million! Except for most Democrats having a really nasty attitudes toward spoilers.

57 million votes isn't enough if Democrats stand firm. There are 72 million of us, no matter how much the WSJ pretends we don't exist.

Oh, and Bloomberg already said, NO.