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Posted: Wed Nov 4th, 2009 04:21 am |
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51% to 46% with 96% of precincts reporting. Close, but he's not a democrat. Any win for a non-democrat in liberal NYC is unusual. (Oddly enough, he was a democrat, turned republican after 9/11 and then during this election he ran as both a republican and an independent).
His opponent, Thompson's already proven to be a fiscal fool (he was comptroller and not a good one)! Also, a typical liberal NYC politician . . . so happy he didn't win.
Only Bloomberg, Koch and Giuliani could have pulled off changing term-limits to three from two and won the third term. (And in Bloomberg's case, also his party). Whatever anyone thinks of any of them--no others have loved and understood NYC and been as good for it as they've been. In this liberal cesspool they've all been fiscally reasonable and attentive to police and firemen. None played the liberal political games so famously played here. Bloomberg's been needed since 9/11 for the economy and again after the bailouts and all else Obama doesn't "get" insofar as capitalism and how big business actually works. Much as Obama and libs don't seem to quite "get it", Bloomberg does, very much so and in this city with Wall St. and enough aggressive lawyers to begin their own large state, well, really glad Bloomberg won!
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