Bloomberg made a lot of amateur mistakes early on and his personality is not great and sometimes he can't help himself, ... But he's a smart guy and he's matured. |
Bloomberg made a lot of amateur mistakes early on and his personality is not great and sometimes he can't help himself. But he's a smart guy and he's matured. |
But, ... he shows no inclination of doing anything like that. |
Ex-presidents need to hang around with one another. Who are their peers? Nobody's experienced what they've experienced. |
He came in as a liberal Democrat and has governed as a moderate-to-liberal Democrat, and that's why liberal Democrats are mostly satisfied. That's what he is. |
He was edgier than the other candidates and he had a sense of humor, ... And Weiner proved that he could think outside the box, right down the last move. |
He was edgier than the other candidates and he had a sense of humor. And Weiner proved that he could think outside the box, right down the last move. |
He will do nothing that will harm his wife's political prospects and will do much to enhance and foster them. But does that mean that we have to look at every one of his acts through the prism of his wife's election? Let's not take it to be the only reality. |
He would make the Bloomberg people work harder, ... know the last three times he sneezed. |
His withdrawal from the race was totally typical of the campaign. He was outside the box. Nobody expected this. |
I don't think he's going to lose by 38 points, but 20 to 25 percent is certainly within the realm of possibility. You have a mayor with a good record and unlimited resources, which we haven't seen before. |
In some ways, this is a critical election. A different paradigm of governing is emerging. We may be moving into this post-racial, post-ideological politics. I think it's much more a competency-based, performance-based politics. |
In terms of scorekeeping, I think the mayor did well. He was firm, feisty, aggressive, and he showed a side of him that New Yorkers might want to see more of. |
It seems that they would prefer to run against Freddy. |
It sounds as if they're ready and raring to go. It's going to happen unless the firestorm beforehand burns them enough that they don't go through with it. |