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City Room: Bloomberg's Influence May Be Diminished
Washington Square Park: On Bloomberg and his NYC Mayoral “win” of Third Term, Plus Eight Articles Worth Reading
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No Longer Invincible http://bit.ly/1tRtQv 25 days ago |
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No Longer Invincible: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s strikingly thin margin of victory in Tuesday’s election coul.. http://bit.ly/1tRtQv 26 days ago |
Bloomberg's Influence May Be Diminished
City Room —
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s strikingly thin margin of victory in Tuesday’s election could affect his influence . He ended election night in possession of a surprisingly modest 5 percent margin of victory — far narrower than pollsters had predicted and with 100,000 fewer votes than he won in 2005. Voters seemed riled by the term limits extension and his vast campaign spending. In many ways, the air of inevitability the campaign was selling to outsiders — including the White House — ...
On Bloomberg and his NYC Mayoral “win” of Third Term, Plus Eight Articles Worth Reading
Washington Square Park —
... 3. Today’s New York Times on Bloomberg’s “slim victory”: “For all the talk of a post-racial, post-class city, Mr. Bloomberg gained a third term heavily dependent on the votes of white, middle-class and wealthy voters.” ...
Election Aftermath
Mr NYC —
... The result? Mike Bloomberg risks leaving office in four years a despised mayor -- like his third term brethren LaGuardia, Wagner, and Koch did. By the end of their third terms, New Yorkers were totally sick of them. They had outstayed their welcome. Then the city voted for mayors (O'Dwyer, Lindsay, Dinkens) who were totally different from them. And based on the election results of last night, that's the direction Bloomberg is going in. His successor could be 180 degrees different from him, elected out of disgust and exhaustin with a three-term mayor -- and that will ...
Bloomberg’s Narrow Margin of Victory Not a Surprise After All
NYU Local —
... at the Atlantic Wire. Even the Times said Bloomberg “No Longer Seems Invincible”. Have any of these groups even looked at the results for more than a second? The numbers should not have been a surprise to anyone, and certainly don’t show the public turning on Bloomberg in droves. ...
