Historic Blunders Were Committed

As official results are tallied, it turns out that Bloomberg’s victory actually wasn’t the widest margin ever for a Republican. That, and Fernando Ferrer’s unsportsmanlike whining, may unfortunately sabtoage Bloomberg’s “place in history” bona fides. In fact, I think Ferrer is doing it on purpose:

Mr. Ferrer, who does not place blame on himself at any point in the El Diario interview, said the news media did not sufficiently cover the issues he had raised in the campaign. Reporters, he said, “will always assert that there was nothing persuasive to report.” He added, “Aren’t hunger and housing persuasive issues?”

He also suggested that he might have been taken more seriously and could have closed in on Mr. Bloomberg if the polls had not forecast an inevitable runaway victory by the mayor. Some newspapers used opinion polls to predict a Bloomberg blowout, with The New York Post declaring “It’s Over” in a headline three days before the election. Polls suggested that the mayor would win by up to 38 percentage points.

“Historic blunders were committed, but they’ll never be held responsible for the harm that they did to me with the public and the fund-raising,” Mr. Ferrer said.