emperor mike

Yikes, Emperor Mike, that was a close call!  New York’s (sort of) beloved Mayor Bloomberg barely eked out a victory in yesterday’s elections there.  Sort of an embarrassing turn of events, considering the polls showed him winning by sound double-digits.  In exit polls, New Yorkers thankfully verified that they were more than a little yucked-out by Bloom’s meek grasp of democratic principles. 

As previously noted on this blog, America’s favorite power-hankering Independent not only had the city’s popular mayoral term-limit law overturned to afford himself a third stab at Giuliani-like heraldry, but even creepier, he funneled into his campaign’s coffers an estimated $90 million of his own scratch, more than any other candidate in human history.  Congrats on your tenuous reelection, Mister Emperor-Mayor.  You’ve proven campaigns in America can still be jiggered and bought, just not as quietly as they used to.