I'm a registered Democrat and 99% of the time will vote for the party's candidate. I just didn't care for Thomspon (Bloomberg's opponent). The message I got from his campaign was that Bloomberg spent a lot of his own money and that he "bought" the change of law to end term limits. I didn't hear anything about what he wanted to do to make the city better. I voted for Bloomberg. There was some suspicion from both sides that people would stay home thinking Bloomberg had the election in the bag and would win by a huge amount and then some of the later polls over the last few days had it being closer. I actually heard some spin from Thompson's camp this morning that they said Dem's stayed home and didn't bother to vote. HUH??? Did it occur to them people just didn't care for him and chose to vote for Bloomberg instead? Sheesh.

I also don't see the Republican wins for NJ and VA governor as an Obama loss. It says to me the people in those states were unhappy with the incumbents and with the state of their state.