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Several things contribute to tight Bloomberg race
It looked like Mayor Michael Bloomberg was going to have a cakewalk in Tuesday's election.
Up by at least 12 percent Monday in the final opinion polls over Democratic Comptroller William Thompson, Bloomberg appeared to be a runaway winner. But his eventual margin of victory came in at just over 5 percentage points.
What made the mayoral race closer than many expected, experts said,...
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