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Playing politics, New York City-style

Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during the opening ceremony

Photo credit: Getty Images | Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during the opening ceremony of the 2010 U.S. Open in Queens. (Aug. 30, 2010)

Fantasy-league politics is all the rage.

In just the past two years in New York this hobby, or habit, or whatever you call it, has served up such pie-in-the-sky as Mayor Michael Bloomberg running for president, Rick Lazio dropping out of the governor's race, Gov. David A. Paterson appointing himself U.S. senator, ex-Gov. George Pataki running for U.S. Senate, and ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer running...

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