He has already sent me his check thank you very much what did you think of the NYC film essay ?in my previous post

Bloomberg Rolling Over Thompson in New Survey
By David W. Chen


With Election Day just eight days away, the B word is suddenly being mentioned as a possibility: blowout.

So suggests Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, which released a poll on Monday morning showing that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is ahead of William C. Thompson Jr. by 18 percentage points among likely voters — 53 percent to 35 percent. That solidifies a poll taken last week [pdf] by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which found Mr. Bloomberg’s lead to be 16 percentage points.

“It’s been shaping up all along, and now the new numbers say it looks like a Bloomberg blowout,” Mr. Carroll said.

Goulet, the "race" is a joke...there are people that don't even know who Thompson is and we're in the late innings already! The Democrats seeme to have decided to throw in the towel before this one even began.

with Obozo as the head of the democratic party many will be throwing in the towel

For the politically enlightened from The Great One http://podfuse-dl.andomedia.com/800185/podfuse-origin.andomedia.com/citadel_origin/pods/WABC/WABC-Levin/10-23-09Levin.mp3

News Analysis
Bloomberg Is Quick to Attack, Yet Vague on Mission
By MICHAEL POWELL
Published: October 27, 2009

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg ended the debate on Tuesday night sounding very much like the man he was eight years ago, efficient and smart, a guy with reasonable answers for nearly every question, and a knack for the sardonic counterpunch.

Yet, as voters were reminded again, even if he serves another four years, this billionaire mayor could well exit the municipal stage without ever having made that gut connection with New Yorkers that for better or ill defines the best-known mayors.

Mr. Bloomberg has a powerful man’s manner and a technocrat’s way of talking, and he slipped his foe’s punches with practiced ease. But the most obvious questions caused him to double-clutch, such as this one: How do you feel when you are told that you are out of touch with average New Yorkers?

His face contracted in distaste. He makes no pretense of being a mayoral empath.

“I don’t think so, I don’t get that sense when I ride the subway four or five times a week at minimum,” he said. “It’s very easy to say I feel your pain. That’s not what we need.”

Mysteries attend to the city’s most dominant politician, even after eight years in office. Admired but more rarely loved, he risked a voter revolt by going back on his vow not to seek a third term. He has risked annoying his friends and awakening the dead by bombarding the airwaves with tens of millions of dollars worth of campaign commercials. And in the debate, he attacked his opponent, Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., with the fervor suggestive of a man locked in a sweaty electoral clinch. (Most recent polls suggest the mayor has a commanding lead.)

Taken together, his style hints at an insecurity not visible to the reportorial eye.

Mr. Thompson raised his debating game on Tuesday, landing blows about the sagging economy, vast city subsidies for a luxury baseball stadium in the Bronx, and the fact that tens of thousands of middle class tenants are caught between disappearing jobs and too-high rents. The mayor, Mr. Thompson noted, had not joined the lawsuit filed by Manhattan tenants that successfully challenged widespread rent overcharges at Stuyvesant Town, a large housing complex.

But the mayor hit back hard, sometimes accurately and sometimes not. He invited voters to judge his record on education against that of Mr. Thompson, and suggested that the comptroller had accepted too many large donations from companies seeking to profit from the city’s vast public pensions.

Eight years ago, Mr. Bloomberg presented a more static debating target. Now he sidesteps tough questions with ease. Why stand and defend the performance of city schoolchildren on federal tests — those scores, in fact, have been flat during his tenure — when he can note the performance of children on state test scores, which have risen every year?

Challenged to say what he would do with the vast budget gaps that loom in the next few years, Mr. Bloomberg turned to other subjects. (The city’s financial plan shows a cumulative gap of $15 billion by 2013, according to the state comptroller.)

Late in the debate, Mr. Thompson scored points off the mayor’s tendency to use sacks of charitable donations to purchase what sounds a lot like silence from prominent politicians and nonprofit leaders who are no less well known. Then Mr. Bloomberg shuffled his feet and answered Mr. Thompson’s aggressive move — the comptroller gave the mayor a grade of D-minus over all — with rope-a-dope graciousness. “I think Bill has been a reasonably good comptroller,” Mr. Bloomberg said, nodding slightly at his opponent. “We’ve worked well on most issues.”

It was an elegant move. But by night’s end, what was missing was the urgency that motivated the mayor to embark on this most controversial of his election bids. Months ago, he suggested that the city’s dire fiscal condition, the ledgers dipped in red ink, required his cool competence and financial legerdemain. But asked the question on Tuesday night — what do you hope to accomplish in the next four years that you haven’t done yet? — Mr. Bloomberg turned prosaic.

“So,” he said, hesitating just a second, “I think it’s more of the same, making sure that we continue the things, making sure that we expand the universe of people that benefit from those things.”

It sounded an awful lot like a successful politician still rummaging about for a purpose.
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