YIKES!   THIS SOON? – AT 11:08. A.M. ET:   The rumors have been floating around.  They are growing.  Will she or won't she?  The she is Hillary Clinton.  The rumors are swirling around the possibility that she will run this year for mayor of New York.  Will she go from foreign policy to garbage trucks?  Will she become empress of bike lanes?  From the Daily Mail: 

Hillary Clinton is '50-50' on deciding whether or not she will run for New York mayor, a city political insider claims.

Supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis said he's convinced that Clinton might challenge current Mayor Bill de Blasio with a campaign this year.

Catsimatidis, a billionaire who was a Clinton donor during the 2016 presidential campaign, said he will hold off his own decision to run for mayor until the former secretary of state decides what she will do.

'I spoke to her about it, but she didn't indicate or signal to me [whether she would run]. She didn't say never, she didn't say no. In my personal opinion, it's 50-50,' he told The Real Deal real-estate blog on Monday. 'If Hillary runs, I won't.'

The Red Apple Group CEO and Gristedes Foods owner ran his own mayoral campaign in the 2013 primary as a Republican, but he lost to Joe Lhota.

While Clinton has given no indication she will run for office again she, she won 49 per cent of the hypothetical vote over de Blasio's 29 in a recent poll conducted by Quinnipiac University.

The poll sparked calls among her fans to revive her political career. They started a 'Hillary for Mayor' hashtag on Twitter and told de Blasio to 'watch out'.

The poll asked: 'If the election for Mayor were being held today, and the candidates were Bill de Blasio the Democrat, and Hillary Clinton running as an independent candidate, for whom would you vote?'

The next Mayoral election in New York will be held on November 7. De Blasio has already begun campaigning for reelection.

COMMENT:  I'd love to see her run, just for the political theater.  Remember, Nixon ran for governor of California after losing the 1960 presidential race to Jack Kennedy.  He lost the governorship as well, but then went on to run, successfully, for president in 1968.

She'd have to depose fellow Democrat, and incumbent mayor, Bill de Blasio.  That won't be difficult.  The mayor is slightly to the left of Lenin, and is less than beloved. 

Knowing the New York Republican Party, it will give up before the race starts. 

Stay tuned for bulletins.

January 24, 2017