Not withstanding the hyperbolic pronouncement of Reuters via Washington Post that Bloomberg looks set for another term as NY mayor, Bloomie's camp is not that happy over the implosion happening to Virginia Fields : FIELDS' MELTDOWN BAD NEWS FOR MIKE - Yahoo! News

SENIOR advisers to Mayor Bloomberg in creasingly fear that Fernando Ferrer will win the Democratic primary and avoid a potentially racially divisive runoff that could work to the mayor's advantage. The Bloomberg camp --which for months has expected Ferrer to be its opponent in the November election-- is now resigned to the possibility that Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields will not draw enough support to keep Ferrer from the 40 percent needed on Sept. 13 to win the primary outright. "The only person hurt more than us by Virginia's problems is Virginia," said a Bloomberg aide, referring to the weeklong flap over a doctored campaign photo. "If Freddy reaches 40 [percent], it certainly makes things more difficult."

This is really interesting. So if Virginia photoshops her credibility away and the mayor thinks it's bad news; do they have their panties in a bunch now that Gifford Miller junk-mailed his integrity with $1.6 million of tax payers' money? Does this mean we will have a real election after all?