Michael Bloomberg drew some fire last week for donating $500,000 to state Senate Republicans just as Eliot Spitzer is trying to help Democrats take over the Senate.
A minor-but-interesting side-detail about that working relationship: As late as 2006, the New York State Senate Republican Campaign Committee was paying thousands of dollars in consulting fees Read More
Bonnie Behrend, who formerly worked as an anchor for Bloomberg and CNBC, then allegedly blamed Bob Wright for her prolonged unemployment, loves the idea of an Obama-Bloomberg ticket, according to this video entry on her blog, placed just below several very large photos of herself.
Michael Bloomberg’s pollster Doug Schoen will appear on John Gambling’s WABC show at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning to talk about his new book, according to a source.
The book, Declaring Independence: The Beginning of the End of the Two Party System, is Read More
So here’s a great example of the elegantly compartmentalized P.R. strategy being employed on Michael Bloomberg’s behalf, where the official, earnestly delivered line out of the City Hall press office is that it’s New York-centric business as usual, even as the likes of Kevin Sheekey and Doug Schoen drop ever-stronger hints that it’s not.
During Read More
Time columnist Joe Klein created a stir at the Council on Foreign Relations earlier today when he suggested that “an element of unwitting sabotage” may be behind Bill Clinton’s series of apparently off-message comments while campaigning on behalf of his wife.
Klein speculated: “He’s worrying, ‘Maybe she’s going to be a better president than I Read More
Michael Bloomberg is conducting polls in all 50 states, the most concrete sign of his interest in running for president, reports the AP.
"They want a hard-headed sense of their chances,” said Doug Schoen, who spearheaded Bloomberg’s voter database efforts, known as microtargeting, for his two mayoral campaigns.In November, Schoen Read More
I got scooped on posting my own video of Michael Bloomberg (yet again) blowing off steam over another 2008 question.
At a press conference this morning, I asked Bloomberg about the upcoming book from Doug Schoen, the pollster employed by Bloomberg during his two mayoral campaigns. The book’s title seems Read More
Doug Schoen, a noted pollster Michael Bloomberg has relied on for two mayoral elections, and who may be called upon again should Bloomberg enter the presidential race, is coming out with a new book entitled “Declaring Independence.” [via Steve M.]
The subtitle of the book is Read More
Here’s Michael Bloomberg dismissing a story published today that says his aides are reaching out to his former campaign consultants and asking them not to get locked in with other presidential candidates until Bloomberg decides if he’ll run.
“There was this breathless story, like something’s changed,” Bloomberg said at the City Hall Read More
Doug Schoen, the noted pollster who crunched numbers for Bill Clinton in the mid-1990’s and for Michael Bloomberg in 2001 and 2005, consented to answer a hypothetical question about a possible Bloomberg campaign for president.
Speaking at a forum about presidential polling at Baruch College, Mr. Schoen was responding to an audience member asking Read More
