[dfwgator]

Kind of like Giuliani, running NYC is a lot different than running the US.

[SmokingJoe]

Yes.
Guiliani was a very good mayor of New York, but he never quite got what fly over country was all about. Just look at his disastrous presidential campaign when he did everything wrong. He thought he'd campaign for president same way he campaigned for mayor of New York.
I lived in NYC a long time so I know where Bloomberg and Guiliani were coming from. When you are in New York all the time, you tend to think the world begins and ends there.