Bloomberg's Approval Has Dropped 22 Points

[Me.]

From 61 to 39 according to the local news.

[FSogol]

1. Huh? What's the reason? n/t

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. He's a lousy mayor. n/t

[FSogol]

3. LOL, besides that. Did I miss some event/scandal/problem? n/t

[TomClash]

4. snow removal nt

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. He accomplished the impossible: made the PS system....

.... *worse*.

And they said it couldn't be done.

And .... more generally... there aren't Bloomberg commercials on every two and a half minutes as there are in election years.


So partly there's a natural fall-off.


The staggeringly miscast Cathie Black hit some otherwise oblivious folks pretty hard. "Ohhh,.... so *thats* what the teachers, etc. have been talking about these last few years."

Then there was the snow-storm fiasco.

Also, people are just tired of him. He's been around 10 years.

[Johonny]

14. It's easy to be mayor and governor when economic times are good

when they aren't, it is really hard to be a mayor or governor.

[Tatiana]

5. Looks like Republican buyers' remorse is sweeping across the nation.

Better late than never. I hope these people remember how the Republicans have run local, state and national government into the ground and decimated the middle class in 2012.

[FSogol]

7. God, I hope so. n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. Ten years late. Every time.

[CommonSensePLZ]

8. Good, serves him right - K & R

He sold out his own townspeople for the RNC - I might never forgive him for what he made the cops do to protesters, and he made the school system a pain in the ass, but it seems those things New York is willing to overlook.

FUCK BLOOMBERG and curse his empire. Not sure how literally I mean that.

[yurbud]

9. why did people vote for him in the first place? Did somebody drop stupid pills in the water supply?

[Me.]

10. Good Question

No sane answer considering how he cheated to get a third term. He's a nanny state autocrat who is ruining the city with initiatives like Times Square (thank God they overruled him on 34th street). The teacher's union is running ads saying we have a 3B surplus and yet he us crying poor and using it as an excuse to make the changes he wants.

[Smarmie Doofus]

13. Relentless propaganda:$$$ed and free supplied by peers...

... Murdoch, Zuckerman and the rest of the corporate media elite.

Good w. gimmickry ( i.e. he pays for the most gifted propagandists) and Manhattan-centric "solutions" like congestion pricing and the like .


No... we're not all stupid ( although he thinks we are). He's a product of a freak historical accident. Had 9-11 not hit, Mark Green ( a real deal-type liberal w. a MONSTER intellect) would have won the '01 DEM primary outright. ( It was cancelled, scheduled for that day.) The postponement allowed for all sorts of extraneous variables to develop and he was forced into a divisive runoff against Fernando Ferrer. Which he won.

But Bloomberg squeaked thru in the general 'cause Fernando's people sat on their hands.

9-11 had all sorts of far reaching tragic political consequences that people tend to forget. Two terms for Bush was one. Bloomberg as Mayor was another.

[jumptheshadow]

11. In some ways, he's been a very good mayor

He took hold of a devastated city and directed its revival. He installed a direct phone line to the city that is effective and helps cut through red tape. He lobbied for the day fee on automobiles in NYC, which, if passed, would have held down subway fare increases, helped with infrastructure repairs and stopped our city's ignominious rise to the most traffic-choked urban area in the U.S. There's a GPS test program in buses that will enable you to look up where your bus is on its route on the MTA website. He has opened more green pedestrian spaces in New York, has supported the arts and has bolstered the tourism economy.

Most importantly, he is not Rudy Giuliani or any of the questionable machine Democrats.

I despise his contributions to the Republicans but, objectively, he's probably one of the best mayors in the country.

When he leaves office there might even be some halfway decent Democratic candidates this time.