(CNN) In laying the groundwork for a presidential run, Michael Bloomberg will have to do something he rarely does: ignore the data.

At his company, ideas -- even stories -- aren't greenlit without data to support them.

If Bloomberg does run, he'll be flying in the face of the internal polling his own team has done, which shows there isn't a clear path for victory.

The little public data we have on Bloomberg doesn't look promising. In March, for example, Bloomberg polled at just 2% nationally among potential Democratic primary voters. He had a favorable rating of 27% compared to an unfavorable rating of 38% among likely Iowa caucus-goers. That same month, he announced he wouldn't run for the nomination

More recently, an October 2019 Fox News poll asked a slightly different question and discovered that 6% of Democratic primary voters said they would definitely vote for Bloomberg in a Democratic primary, while 32% said they would never vote for him.

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