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'Could Be' Candidate Bloomberg Crunching Data

NYC mayor targets supporters, volunteers

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 10, 2008 10:15 AM CST

(Newser) – Michael Bloomberg continues to deny that he's going to make an independent bid for the White House, but the billionaire New York mayor has built a colossal database of voter information from all 50 states, reports AP. "They want a hard-headed sense of their... Read full story »

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