Most New Yorkers do not know Mayor Michael Bloomberg's political party affiliation, according to a new New York Times poll of city residents.
"Just one in three New Yorkers correctly answered that he was an independent. More than one in four thought he was Republican (which he was from 2001, when he first ran for mayor, until June 2007), while about one in 10 said he was a Democrat (which he was before he first ran for mayor). A quarter of all respondents said they didn't know."