According to a recent Marist Poll, only half of the city’s electorate thinks Bloomberg is a mayor who cares about the average New Yorker. The other half? Well, they might have heard the awkward remark Mayor Bloomberg made a day after the city suffered it’s second swine flu death:

“In some senses, if you have H1N1 [virus], you should consider yourself lucky because it so far seems to be a milder flu than the garden variety,” Bloomberg said Monday.

The mayor quickly explained that he wasn’t downplaying the deaths.

“It’s very sad that those that we’ve lost are gone, but the good news is that so far it does seem to be a relatively mild flu.”

Bonnie Weiner, whose husband died last week from the flu, objected to the mayor’s remark.

“I’m not feeling very lucky,” she told the Daily News. “I’m sorry I can’t agree with that.”

(Source: The Daily News)