This after Bloomberg spent more than $100 million on the most expensive self-financed campaign in U.S. history.
Thompson was widely predicted to lose by double digits, but he hoped to stoke voter resentment over the way Bloomberg sought a change to the city's term-limits law to stay in office.
Thompson relied on donations and matching funds for his mayoral bid and probably spent about one-tenth of Bloomberg's total.
Bloomberg won by a nearly 20-point blowout in 2005.
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