Reply #18: Agree. Rudolf Giuliani is bruised by Bloomberg's competence whether

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Bloomberg runs or not. And a recent poll indicated that New York City folks think Bloomberg is the better mayor and they like him more than Rudy.

For my part, I like Charles Manson better than Rudy.

If Giuliani can't carry New York State against Bloomberg and/or Clinton, he can't cobble an electoral college win in 2008.

Bloomberg must have taken a glimpse at recent polls showing Clinton and Giuliani as frontrunners and before either became calcified by the media as "inevitable," he may have decided to run right up the middle of the field.

And he's got a few coins in the piggybank to finance a campaign, too.