New York City folks, just curious. How many terms will NYC let Bloomberg

[Skidmore]

buy? I was just watching him and thinking about why he has another term. Just wondering.

[RB TexLa]

1. as many as 50% plus one vote to give him

[HamdenRice]

2. To be honest, part of it is he is not Giuliani

There have been a lot of racially divisive politics in NYC since the Koch era, and they came to a head with Giuliani who was a proto-fascist. Giuliani once bragged about having not shaken the hand of a single black leader for several years. Giuliani finally united the communities of color with liberal whites to deep six his career.

When Bloomberg was elected, there was this massive sigh of relief -- a white mayoral politician who was not a race baiter, something we hadn't had since Beame, which is like 30 years.

Bloomberg is remarkably popular among people of color, simply because he is not Giuliani and not Koch. Obviously he's got the rich, the bankers and landlords. Plus he has the white middle class.

Even though he is robbing the middle class blind, he has created a kind of bland sense of normalcy that people don't want to get rid of.

[shoopnyc]

4. Very well put HamdenRice...

...but I do feel with the exit of Pataki, and the first state democratic majority in something like 40 years, (still unbelievable), things are a changin'...

[Statistical]

5. Good analysis. Unlikely bedfellows in the Bloomberg "coalition". n/t

[Me.]

3. As Many As The City Council & He Want

They did an end run around putting it to a vote as we've already made our wishes clear through a previous vote. The day after the coup was accomplished a poll came our that said a majority didn't want him to have a 3rd term. Unfortunately, the dem candidate is unknown and practically invisible.