The rationale for Mike Bloomberg's candidacy has been almost totally destroyed, writes jonathanchait
Looking up. Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images After Joe Biden finished an astonishing fourth in Iowa and then in fifth place in New Hampshire, I wrote a postmortem for his campaign. It now looks like one of the most wrong things I have ever written. It was pointed out to me after I published that I described Biden’s campaign in the past tense, something I did not plan or realize beforehand. It simply seemed obvious nobody could come back from such a catastrophe — least of all Joe Biden.
But whatever his limitations, Biden has not gotten worse. His last debate performance was his best. It was almost good. This outcome is in keeping with the dominant tradition of pragmatism in African-American voting. Black voters have rarely had the luxury of voting for national leaders who can offer them everything they want. Marginalized communities have to leverage their vote.
If it was going to happen for Bloomberg, it would be happening now. Because he entered the race so late, he has gone through the scrutiny phase every rising candidate has to endure at the worst possible time. That, in combination with disastrous debate performances, has made his unfavorable ratings among Democratic voters disastrously high.
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