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Fred Siegel assesses Giuliani's presidential chances.
School districts have always been patronage magnets; leave it to New Jersey to cut to the chase and have districts with no schools at all. The Times breaks a run of sharp editorials about New York with a very odd call for the Republican Party to "embrace [Mayor Bloomberg] as it's guiding star." Bloomberg, a lifelong Democrat who crossed party lines in order to avoid a crowded 2001 Democratic primary, has done nothing to build the state party, which was just swept on the statewide slate for the first time in 40 years. While the Times focuses on the mayor's "probity and managerial experience," what's attractive to the state GOP, which is more valuable as a ballot line than as a functioning party these days, is self-funded candidates. More of my take on the state party's collapse here.Speaking of the Times, a terrific explanation of how technology ended the paper's tradition of detailing the world's bus crashes.
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