Election Day

So tomorrow is election day and we are voting for mayor in NYC. Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems like the winner against former Bronx Borough president Fernando Ferrer. He spent millions of dollars on his campaign, even when the polls showed him at 60% to Ferrer's 30%. This is obviously the mind of a businessman, he spends millions of dollars to get his message across. It is no wonder that he is a billionaire, he definitely knows how to market himself (and other things, too).

Ferrer, who is running as a democrat, is having difficulties with Bloomberg, who is running as a republican, even though NYC is a city dominated by democrats. People, however, seem to forget that Bloomberg wasn't always a republican. In fact, he only became a republican right before the previous mayoral elections, when he realized that he couldn't run as a democrat. Up until that time he was a democrat. His actions, too, are moderate if not left leaning. Similar to NYS Governor George Pataki, who is a republican, yet is liberal on many issues. That perhaps is the only way for a republican to win an election in this part of the country. The same goes for former mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Don't get me wrong, I support both Pataki and Giuliani, voted for them in elections, and I support Mike Bloomberg as well. Tomorrow I will vote for Mike, definitely because I don't want Ferrer, and also because he has done a good job. Granted he isn't Rudy, and I'm sure that there are many people out there who could do a better job than him. However, he has done a lot of good things for the city, even though there were some things that he did which weren't so good. Therefore (and because of some other reasons, too), I support Mike.