Let’s not get into the whole “downtown reconstruction” and Bloomberg again, shall we? Let’s just say this: Bloomberg has the luck of a successful politician. The rejection of the stadium last month took away an issue from his Democratic rivals in the reelection campaign this year — an issue that would have cut even more deeply against him with the rejection of New York’s Olympic bid this morning. (As in: We’re building this stadium, and FOR WHAT now?) Had the Olympics said yes to New York, that too would have been an exploitable issue for his rivals — why are we spending all this money on a beach volleyball stadium in Far Rockaway, etc.? So now what are his rivals going to say? That he somehow blew the Olympic bid? That might work for a day or so, but no longer. Bloomberg wanted things that might have damaged him politically. Now that he hasn’t gotten them, he will waltz into reelection even more easily than he might have before.