Is Donald Trump fading? What about Jeb Bush? Can Hillary Clinton fight through more damaging revelations? And what’s up with Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden and Ben Carson and Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina and Ted Cruz and everyone else in the 2016 crowd? Amid the extraordinary amount of campaign news these days, it was striking Wednesday that Mike Allen, Politico’s well-connected chief political reporter, devoted not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six paragraphs of his newsletter to the virtually nonexistent presidential prospects of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

In an item headlined “The Conversation,” Allen wrote that the billionaire businessman “has gotten a new surge of pleas to run for president over the past month, making him the most-buzzed-about current non-candidate whose name isn’t Joe Biden.” Allen reported that Bloomberg is “politely waving off” entreaties that he run, but that he could change his mind.