How does Bloomberg compare to New York mayors of the recent past—Rudy Giuliani, David Dinkins, Ed Koch?
Rudy Giuliani and Ed Koch were—and are—incredibly theatrical. People who had never met them still felt they had a very strong, direct relationship with them. That was not true of David Dinkins, and, of course, he wasn’t reëlected. Bloomberg does not have the sort of personality that fills a room, or, for that matter, a television screen. This is a problem for him, once again, in terms of his relationship to voters, although not necessarily in terms of his ability to govern. One of the paradoxes of Bloomberg’s personality is that, in spite of his wealth and social status, many people say that he comes across as an ordinary man, especially in person. He’s also been known to ride the subway to work. What are we to make of his image? Bloomberg grew up in a middle-class household (in Medford, Massachusetts), and he seems perfectly comfortable dealing with people of different socioeconomic backgrounds, and of different races and ethnicities. He just doesn’t seem that interested in getting ou
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