The idea of a third-party candidacy movement advances, pushed by, who else, David Broder. If he’s for it, you have to believe he assumes it would damage Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee. If the candidate is New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, it might.

Here’s a NY Times followup on the Bloomberg candidacy.

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