Who’s afraid of a city Comptroller Spitzer? The governor, that’s who.

Gov. Cuomo has remained publicly neutral in the race between Eliot Spitzer and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer because his own private polling data shows the former governor will likely win on Tuesday — and he fears retribution from the notoriously vindictive “steamroller,” insiders told The Post.

“The governor didn’t feel his endorsement would turn the tide for Stringer and felt that the danger in further angering Spitzer wasn’t worth the risk,” said a Cuomo administration source.

Cuomo, who often employs his own polling firm to gauge public sentiment, was told that Spitzer — whom he privately opposes as a likely “disaster’’ for the city and state — was leading Stringer by “the high single digits.”

Sources close to Cuomo say he fears the notoriously aggressive and egocentric Spitzer would use the position of comptroller to settle old political scores with the governor, second-guess the new mayor, and wage a public-relations war against Wall Street, the single greatest source of revenue to the state.

Some even think Spitzer, a former attorney general, might launch a Democratic primary challenge next year against current AG Eric Schnei­der­man.

(via NY Post)