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Bloomberg Wins Third Term as Mayor;
Republican Is Elected Virginia Governor

New York Times, by Michael Barbaro & Sewell Chan

Original Article

Posted By:Photoonist, 11/3/2009 9:58:23 PM

Michael R. Bloomberg won a third term as New York City’s 108th mayor on Tuesday. Mr. Bloomberg — who persuaded the City Council to amend a law that would have restricted him to two terms and then spent some $90 million of his personal fortune on his campaign — decisively defeated Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., his Democratic rival. It was the fifth straight defeat for the Democrats, who, despite a massive registration

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The good news is that the Democrats didn't win. The bad news is that a Republican didn't win either. Emperor Bloomberg, by dictating a new law that the people had no say in is mayor again.


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Reply 1 - Posted by: reddfroge, 11/3/2009 10:03:19 PM     (No. 5997580)

the people of NY deserve the government that they voted for....'God Bless' them for they know note what they have wroughat.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Jinx, 11/3/2009 10:15:38 PM     (No. 5997625)

Can you hear us now? We don't want your socialist government. We don't want your trillion dollar health care debacle. We don't want Cap and Trade. We don't want you to sign a treaty in Copenhagen giving away our freedoms. We want our country back and we are going to take it back. This is just the beginning. 2010, here we come!


Reply 3 - Posted by: JimJr, 11/3/2009 10:36:15 PM     (No. 5997713)

They're aren't finished counting yet. NBC has pulled their call for Bloomberg.

Also, Christie has defeated Corzine in NJ!


 
 


Reply 4 - Posted by: NotaBene, 11/3/2009 10:41:43 PM     (No. 5997733)

Clean sweep in Virginia. Corzine sunk by Soetoro. Hoffman still in the fight, it is a large district. A good day for American-Americans.


Reply 5 - Posted by: whyyeseyec, 11/3/2009 10:44:53 PM     (No. 5997742)

I guess New Yorkers want higher taxes. Idiots....


Reply 6 - Posted by: U2phile, 11/3/2009 10:53:41 PM     (No. 5997770)

Aaaah! This Election Day feels so much better than last year!!! You all know I could not believe Corzine would lose. He has cheated and bought every election until tonight.

No time to rest on our laurels, let go kick some dem. stuffing next year!!!!


Reply 7 - Posted by: HistoryBuff, 11/3/2009 11:10:18 PM     (No. 5997812)

Good King Mike the first of NYC! Ready to give you "congestion Tax" for going to work.

He's coming for your salt shaker and your soda too!

Good King Michael, Mayor of Life.


Reply 8 - Posted by: ForNow, 11/3/2009 11:20:46 PM     (No. 5997851)

The NYC situation is the one we don't want the USA to end up in. Situation where a Bloomberg is the only alternative to a Dem leftist like Thompson.


 

 
 


 
Reply 9 - Posted by: Shucky, 11/3/2009 11:21:37 PM     (No. 5997852)

hopefully the results will give some pause to congressional democrats so that they put the brakes on obamunism.


Reply 10 - Posted by: garami, 11/3/2009 11:27:44 PM     (No. 5997871)

Oh well. Owens won. So I called one wrong. But is was right about NJ, VA, CA-10, and gay marriage in Wash. state and Maine


Reply 11 - Posted by: gam, 11/4/2009 12:06:19 AM     (No. 5997934)

If you were watching FoxNews. The guy in the Luntz segment who said "Virginia is sending a message to Obama" is my husband. I am so proud of him and so proud to be a Virginian!


Reply 12 - Posted by: MrYules, 11/4/2009 12:18:55 AM     (No. 5997948)

To "NotaBene" in reply #4: "American-Americans", Outstanding! Pass it along.


Reply 13 - Posted by: NotaBene, 11/4/2009 12:20:00 AM     (No. 5997949)

Tomorrow the Communist-Progressives will spin this as: NY-23 was a defeat for Rush and Sarah. But we cleaned their clock where it mattered. Have not heard from Goldberg for City Council but hope he sticks around here after a Buckleian campaign. So sweet to see Corzine defeated. Yeahhh.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Donna M, 11/4/2009 12:21:01 AM     (No. 5997952)

The important thing in VA--all three offices, Governor, Lt. Governor and State Attorney General--went Republican. And this was a 'purple' state turning blue.

Bloomberg did not win all that decisively, given the millions he personally put in. Turnout was way down and reportedly the margin is far less than he got 4 years ago. People here were turned off by the sheer negativity and relentlessness of his campaigning against Bill Thompson, a straw man if there ever was one. All Thompson had to do was run commercials repeating Bloomberg's famous remark on NY being a 'luxury city', have ordinary middle class NY-ers, supermarket owners plus other small businessmen on camera--he might have won. Instead he ran commercials with Obama's endorsement, which even here didn't work.


Reply 15 - Posted by: EscutcheonBlot, 11/4/2009 4:50:05 AM     (No. 5998118)

I think it's a big win for not having rich jerks buy public office...Bloomberg barely got in, and Corzine was (for a Dem in Jersey) thumped.

Good news, as there are a lot more plutocratic dems than reps in electoral politics.


 



 
Reply 16 - Posted by: strike3, 11/4/2009 5:09:19 AM     (No. 5998123)

Robert Gibbs is going to be spinning like a top today. The 0bama hugs and kisses sent Corzine to the unemployment line, just where Barry is going to be in 2012.


Reply 17 - Posted by: JLoophole, 11/4/2009 6:12:02 AM     (No. 5998165)

But the Bulls won. So Barry is happy.



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