New York City voters have heaved a rock at Alec Baldwin’s fantasy of running for City Hall.
A new NY1-Marist College poll found 66 percent of voters would prefer that Baldwin stick to acting and stay out of the 2013 mayoral race. Eighteen percent urged him to jump in, while 16% were unsure.
Baldwin, a star of NBC’s hit comedy “30 Rock,” has been musing about a possible mayoral run for at least two years.
He hasn’t done anything else about it and, if the poll is on target, he may want to re-think possible plan for making politics a second career.
Baldwin scored worse than former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who was scorned by 58 percent of voters, and former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who got a no-go signal from 57 percent of those surveyed.
Both Weiner and Spitzer, of course, had to contend with scandals involving smartphone sexting and real live sex, in that order.
In more mundane findings, the poll reported that City Council Speaker Christine Quinn continues to led the field of Democrats angling to replace Mayor Bloomberg.
Quinn stood at 23 percent; former Comptroller Bill Thompson, 15 percent; Comptroller John Liu, 9 percent; Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, 8 percent; Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer 6 percent and publisher Tom Allon, 2 percent.
Allon switched his registration to Republican after the poll was taken and is no longer in the Democratic primary.
Quinn had 32 percent in the previous NY1-Marist poll taken in April, while Thompson had 12 percent back then.
The poll of 918 residents — which included 742 registered voters — was conducted Oct.3-7.