The difficulty now is going out and raising money,

The difficulty now is going out and raising money. Spending 80% of your time begging for money - it's so debilitating on a candidate.

I don't think he's going to lose by 38 points, but 20 to 25 percent is certainly within the realm of possibility. You have a mayor with a good record and unlimited resources, which we haven't seen before.

But, ... he shows no inclination of doing anything like that.

In terms of scorekeeping, I think the mayor did well. He was firm, feisty, aggressive, and he showed a side of him that New Yorkers might want to see more of.

In some ways, this is a critical election. A different paradigm of governing is emerging. We may be moving into this post-racial, post-ideological politics. I think it's much more a competency-based, performance-based politics.

It sounds as if they're ready and raring to go. It's going to happen unless the firestorm beforehand burns them enough that they don't go through with it.

It's the political question of the year: what happened to Gifford? There are two major surprises in this election. One is how poorly Gifford ultimately did, and the other one is really how well Anthony did.

It seems that they would prefer to run against Freddy.

This is really a comedy of errors and missteps for the candidate, the party, the consultants, everybody. Everybody wants an opponent like these guys.