Well so much for Bloomberg's candidacy. It was a fun couple of weeks and half a billion dollars spent I guess.
It looks like the net result will just be increasing the odds of a closely divided or even brokered convention.
In fairness to Bloomberg, while it may seem that he has no discernible personality or debating ability, he really doesn't have much political experience. He was anointed by Giuliani to be his successor, Rudy picking the lesser evil at the time, and mostly just continued Giuliani's policies as promised, sitting there secluded in Gracie Mansion being mayor while riding the coattails of the greatest mayor in NYC history. As an incumbent he didn't face difficult election challenges.
That's it. He's never held any other office. It's possible Bloomberg underestimated how much there was to this politics stuff like he underestimated farmers.
There's also a lesson in all this for those favoring proportional Electoral College delegation rather than the more standard winner take all.