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...York City, a vitriolic race for mayor came to a nail-biter of a finish as Green battled Bloomberg for the unenviable right to succeed current Mayor - and secular saint - Rudy Giuliani. Billionaire tycoon Bloomberg spent a record $50 million of his own money on the campaign, while Green, the city's Public Advocate, spent a relatively paltry $12 million in public financing...
...recently as last week, Green seemed primed to walk away with the election. But then Rudy Giuliani stepped in. The mayor's enthusiastic endorsement of Mike Bloomberg was like magic; within 24 hours Bloomberg's numbers were even with Green's. For the final 10 days before the election, New Yorkers couldn't turn on a television without seeing a grinning Rudy explaining why Bloomberg was the man to succeed...
...Jersey, McGreevey won easily over his rival, conservative Republican Bret Schundler. The GOP candidate was recently endorsed by New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the man with the Midas touch, but even that wasn't enough to beat back McGreevey's aggressive campaign to paint Schundler as a reactionary whose views on abortion and gun control were utterly out of sync with those of the general public. McGreevey was absent from the campaign trail for the last couple of days before the election; his wife is in the hospital with pregnancy complications...
...spirit of Rudy Giuliani looms large over the mayoral contest in New York City. Election rules bar the mayor from taking on another term, but that hasn?t kept him from his role as the power player in this year?s sharply contested race...
...weeks Green seemed to be running away with the election. But all that changed last week, when Giuliani, who is enjoying staggering and nearly universal popularity for his careful and compassionate handling of the September 11th attacks and their aftermath, began appearing in pro-Bloomberg television ads, skillfully melding an endorsement with his own farewell message. The response was immediate: In just a few days, Bloomberg?s numbers shot up to match Green?s, found a footing and stayed there...