In only 72 hours, the movement to draft billionaire vanity candidate Michael Bloomberg has amassed more than 1,000 signatures, many of them from people other than friends and family of the New York mayor and his backers. At the current rate of nearly one signature every three minutes, the movement will have garnered one million supporters by August of 2013.

Fortunately for Bloomberg, he isn’t dependent upon the will of the people; whether he got one signature or one million, the deciding factor on whether or not he runs is whether or not he feels like it. He’s worth at least 20 times as much as Mitt Romney, who is at present the richest person in the race, and nearly 200 times as much as the richest Democrats, John Edwards and Hillary Clinton (her wealth includes her husband’s earnings). He could drop the equivalent of Romney’s entire personal fortune, estimated at $250 million, on his run and not miss it. No doubt he would prefer some indication that actual voters actually want him to run, but it’s not essential.

Bloomberg can also expect, at least initially, a rapturous response from the press, who as always are desperate for some excitement on the campaign trail and are suckers for big money, vacuous rhetoric and improbable heroes.

The Draft Bloomberg Committee did not respond to requests for comment on their expectations of the effort.

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