Bloomberg Dominates Sunday Morning Talk

Mayor Bloomberg's campaign for America dominated the Sunday morning political talk shows. While supporters of the current political establishment and status-quo talked down a Bloomberg or third party candidacy, others expressed a different opinion. On ABC's This Week, Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria had this to say about the mood of the country:

There is a deep sense that Washington is broken and that small minority special interests groups can derail legislation…Bloomberg is probably the most competent elected official in America right now. He does have a very commonsensical view on many of these issues…

While over on Meet the Press, Washington Post columnist, David Broder, expressed this view:

There is such a distaste out there among the people for both these parties…[It’s] wide open.

When asked if a third party candidate could win the presidency, Broder simply responded, "Absolutely."

A new Newsweek poll backs up Broder's thinking on this issue:

A new NEWSWEEK Poll, conducted Wednesday and Thursday nights, suggests a majority of registered voters agree with Bloomberg: 57 percent say the two-party system does not do a good job addressing issues important to Americans, according to the poll. The same percentage of registered voters say the country needs a third political party. That's up from 46 percent in 2003—and virtually identical to the 58 percent who said they favored a third party back in 1996, the year Ross Perot mounted his second independent run for the presidency.

What a great way to start a new week!