Who is Michael Bloomberg?
Mayor Bloomberg is an incredibly successful and enormously wealthy businessman (he was ranked as the 44th richest American and 142nd richest person in the world by Forbes magazine) who amassed his fortune with the sale of financial information terminals by the company he founded Bloomberg L.P. He holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and later went on to receive an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Mayor Bloomberg is a renowned philanthropist (he has donated nearly $300 million to his alma mater John Hopkins alone). His personal charitable contributions have been calculated to place them in the top ten of all philanthropic endeavors in the entire United States. But the crucial question here is: what do Americans outside of NYC know of Michael Bloomberg? The answer, according to polling, is almost nothing. So the most important factor to consider in debating the impact of his entry into the 2008 race is what American voters will make of him whe
