[Clintonfatigued]

Oh, well, a nice little victory for a RINO in an overwhelmingly 'Rat city. Bloomburg is not my favorite Republican (or anyone else's), but this is NYC, after all.

[Indy Pendance]

Doesn't seem like it's going to be a huge voter turnout.

[jla]

Good thing the NY G.O.P. candidate wasn't a conservative. They would've lost and ended up with a Bloomberg Democrat mayor.

[Icelander]

"Democrat Mayor Michael Bloomberg stormed to a second term Tuesday with an overpowering victory over another Democrat Fernando Ferrer".

[oceanview]

he should be winning by alot more.

[Southack]

Not that the obligatory Bloomberg bon mots won't apply, but perhaps it's worth mentioning that former President Clinton campaigned for Federer against Bloomberg...and lost.

...in Blue NYC.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Is this considered a Republican victory?

[PianoMan]

FYI, Ballot Questions 3 & 4 are winning by roughly 75-25, Question 2 60-40 .

[RandallFlagg]

Well, it's not suprising considering he successfully booted out all the smokers from the city.

[rmlew]

So the Bloomberg (Republican-Liberal) beat Ferrer. La di da. The election was a disaster in New York City.

Aside from Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro, no Conservative won.
As far as I can tell, no non-incumbent Republican won.(I get the feeling that Bloomberg was a net loss. A lot of Republicans failed to come out and vote after seeing Bloomberg up ~40% in the last poll.)

Pat Russo (R-C) lost to the incumbent councilwoman Gentile in the 43rd CD (Brooklyn). Philip Foglia (R-C) lost to Democrat James Vacca in an open race for the 15th. The retiring Democrat-Conservative Councilman endorsed Foglia.

In my hood (the upper east side) the Liberal Republicans lost open races. In the 4th CD, Dan Garodnick (Dem) beat Pat Murphy (Rep-Liberal-Ind), even though the former Log Cabin President appeared with Bloomberg and had volunteers. Likewise Jessica Lappin (Dem-WFP) trounced Dr. Joel Zinberg (R-Liberal-I) in the 5th CD.

I await the full results for a proper post-mortem.

[WillamShakespeare]

Hey it could be worse: Bubba Clinton could have been running.

[pgkdan]

ABC radio reported yesterday that Bloomberg spent $82 million on this race...can that be true? I'd think that $8.2 million woul dbe outrageous enough, but $82,000,000???

[soccer_maniac]

Should we be happy that a liberal RINO buys a mayor "victory" for $80 million?

What has Bloomberg done that advanced any of the GOP's agenda?

[Aussie Dasher]

Please excuse me. I know it's a victory for the GOP but I just can't get excited about Bloomberg...