A couple of weeks of constant battering cost City Council Speaker Christine Quinn a few points in the latest mayoral poll.
Her opponents remained stranded at virtually the same places they were in February — way behind.
The Quinnipiac University poll out today showed Quinn was the preferred choice of 32 percent of Democratic voters, down from 37 percent two months ago.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio came in second at 14 percent; former Comptroller Bill Thompson was third at 13 percent and current Comptroller John Liu trailed at 7 percent. Longshot Sal Albanese, a former City Councilman, was not included.
In the previous poll released on Feb. 27, deBlasio had the same 14 percent; Thompson had 11 percent and Liu was at 9 percent.
“We’d be worried if they were picking up her voters, but they’re not,” said one Quinn ally.
Quinn has been getting bashed recently for proposing an inspector general for the NYPD and for brokering a deal that would force businesses here to provide paid sick leave to their employees, a position she long opposed.
The poll of 1,417 city voters was taken April 3-8, before the latest controversy over an anti-Quinn TV ad funded by a progressive union and other groups that have beefs with the Speaker.
Voters still had a highly favorable opinion of Quinn at 49/24 percent positive/negative, down from 51/21 percent.
But that was still higher than any of her rivals.
In the Republican contest, Doe Fund founder George McDonald made an impressive move from 2 to 11 percent.
He was still trailing front runner Joe Lhota, the former MTA chairman, who had 23 percent. Business magnate John Catsimatides was in third place with 8 percent.
Lhota would lose by wide margins to any Democrat if the race were held today.
Voters didn’t view New York City as any more corrupt than anywhere else, with 56 percent saying it was “about as much” as other urban centers.
With the ballot-fixing scandal fresh in their minds, 58 percent of voters associated the Republican Party with political corruption in New York City. Only 26 percent said that of the Democratic Party.
Federal prosecutors have indicted two of the city Republican leaders for allegedly taking payoffs to allow state Sen. Malcolm Smith, a Queens Democrat, to run in the Republican primary for mayor.