 Out of the nearly 400 write-in votes, almost half or 184 (representing about one Democratic voter in 2,000) were some form or spelling of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.In the final weeks of the campaign, Mayor Bloomberg was endorsed "enthusiastically" by the "New York Times", which – while acknowledging Bill Thompson as a "worthy opponent" – praised Bloomberg for handling city matters "astonishingly well".Most other local newspapers had preceded the "Times" in endorsing the mayor, but many did so tepidly, presaging the misgivings of "The New Yorker".