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 NEW YORK (AP) - Democrats who saw how close their candidate came to unseating New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg agonized Wednesday about what might have happened if the national party had not abandoned the party's little-known challenger.
Bloomberg, who was running on the Republican line but is not in a party, outspent and outcampaigned city Comptroller William Thompson Jr. Still, Thompson managed to get within five points of the billionaire incumbent despite getting no help from the Democratic National Committee or the party's leaders, who stayed silent about the race for City Hall in the nation's largest city.
"It's fair to say some people are soul-searching today, some of the folks who didn't get involved," said Public Advocate-elect Bill de Blasio, a Thompson supporter who will be the city's highest ranking Democrat when he is sworn into office in January.
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