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Bloomberg’s In for Third Term as NYC Mayor

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Mayor Bloomberg, Part III: Entrepreneur-turned-politician Michael Bloomberg’s re-election campaign paid off in the polling booths Tuesday.

He changed the rules, he put down the cash, and now New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been re-upped for a third term, beating his Democratic competitor, City Comptroller Bill Thompson, by a slim margin on Tuesday. —KA

Reuters:

Bloomberg defeated City Comptroller Bill Thompson, a Democrat, according to The New York Times, the Daily News and NY1 television.

With 96 percent of the votes counted, Bloomberg was ahead 51 to 46 percent.

His margin was far smaller than expected, given polls that showed him as recently as Monday with a double-digit lead and expectations of a large, lopsided victory.

Bloomberg vastly outspent his challenger, laying out $13 for every $1 spent by Thompson. Bloomberg is described by Forbes magazine as the richest man in New York, with a $16 billion fortune.

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By Mfrog, November 4 at 5:37 pm #
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Yep, the best government money can buy.

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By NYCartist, November 4 at 2:34 pm #

25% of registered New Yorkers voted. The best kept secret of the campaign was that Bloomberg was scared. I suspected it, as he was spending $1million a day on advertising. Negative ads work: people didn’t turn out to vote and that seems to help Republicans, (it has done in the past). The corporate media is nauseating in its continuing lies:they started with “why bother to have an election? Bloomberg has it in the bag.” Money bags. Dem.Now today had an interesting panel, including the thought that one could count Bloomberg’s personal donations as part of the election spending. I’m hoping the absentee ballots
make a dent and erase a lead. http://www.democracynow.org

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By matteomj, November 4 at 12:45 pm #
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bloomberg is one shrewd politician. he’s going to parlay his $85 million dollar mayoral election purchase into a 2012 run as an independent presidential candidate. by that time, the general public will be dragging both the democrats and republicans to the gallows. he’s gonna package himself as an independent
moderate who’s untainted by partisan divisiveness. he’ll advertise himself as a good manager: “i’m efficient and well organized.i’ve managed a giant corporation with great success. i can manage!” so, there you have it! bloomberg, a managerial corporatist running as an independent: an independent aristocrat independently autocratic! democracy will be fugitive as it is now..

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