By Heather Grossmann
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — In what was called “a VERY hypothetical matchup,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg would lose out to President Barack Obama and former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin in a 2012 presidential race, a Marist Poll released Monday reported.
The mayor — who, for the record, has already said he isn’t running for president — would net just 15 percent of the vote as an Independent, compared to Obama’s 44 percent and Palin’s 29 percent.
However, the poll did show that it would help Obama to have the Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Independent mayor in the race — Bloomberg would take 20 percent of the GOP vote from Palin.
The poll did not bear good news for Obama — more people disapprove of the job he is doing (47 percent) than approve of it (44 percent).
