Roger: you missed it with Bloomberg. Bloomberg keeps getting elected because he is good at doing what he is SUPPOSED to do — to keep New York City a safe, clean city, like Guiliani did.

In this he succeeds, so far at least. For those voters — the majority — who are old enough to remember how horrible things were before, this is a huge thing. Banning smoking and watching other people’s fat intake? Annoying, yes. But this is not love of a “nanny mayor”. It’s simply the mayor’s mildly annoying eccentricities. As long as he keeps NY safe, he is welcome to them.

As Jay Nordlinger said, Bloomberg can ban ice cream and he’ll still get his vote — as long as he can whine about it on riverside park at 2 AM.