Mayor Bloomberg probably thought he was pre-tty smooth there, switching his party affiliation while still in office, and hoping no one would suspect he had aspirations for a higher office.

And he would've gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for those meddling Daily News readers.

Nice try, Bloomy.

But you have to wake up pretty early in the morning if you want to get something past the roughly two-thirds of respondents who've actually read a newspaper, watched a television or listened to a radio in the past couple of years.

Yep, we're talking at least, like, 7:30, 7:45 during the week, and maybe 10:00am on the weekends.