| NEW YORK (AP) - Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg won a second term in a blowout Tuesday, easily defeating former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer by drawing a wide majority of Democrats away from his opponent in this strongly left-leaning city. Bloomberg, the billionaire former executive who was elected four years ago as fires still smoldered at the World Trade Center, said he would be "thrilled if I won by one vote or more." With 26 percent of precincts reporting, Bloomberg had 177,268 votes, or 56 percent, compared with Ferrer's 130,061 votes, or 41 percent.
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