"What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?" -Michael Bloomberg.

Time: Bloomberg Win "Isn't impossible"

Mark Halperin from Time plays with the Electoral College Calculator, and imagines a world in which Bloomberg wins outright, while opining that "It isn't impossible for Bloomberg to get enough votes to win."

Halperin raises, but punts, on the more interesting question and probable outcome, specifically: "On the other hand, if Bloomberg was able to pick off some electoral votes, he could theoretically throw the outcome into the House of Representatives, producing another set of complex what-ifs.

Unfortunately, Halperin does not show his math and reveal which states he thinks Bloomberg puts in play -- or how the House of Representatives might break.

He also fails to account for an electoral vote deal.

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