Washington Post, November 6, 2009
By Howard Kurtz

How exactly did the New York press miss the fact that the extravagantly financed Michael Bloomberg express almost got derailed? Local news organizations didn't take the race all that seriously. Nor did many national reporters shuttle in to offer their take. And yet Bloomberg won by 5 points, hardly the blowout the media establishment had been expecting.

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