[Alberta's Child]

He would have been re-elected in November of 2001 by a wide margin, but if the election were held on 9/10/01 he probably would have lost to any of the front-running Democrats.

People forget that New York City had grown pretty tired of him by September of 2001 -- mainly because his most important achievements dated back several years by that point, and they were being overshadowed by other issues at the time.

[Brilliant]

There is no way he'd have lost that. The NYers were moaning about the fact that there was no one to replace him, really, except Bloomberg, who no one really wanted.