Were it up to the voters, as he himself suggested today, Anthony Weiner would not be a candidate for mayor. Fifty three percent of Democratic voters, who’re likely to vote on September 10th, want Mr. Weiner to drop out of the race for mayor, compared to 40% who are still willing to grant him a second/third chance, a new Quinnipiac poll shows. 40% of respondents think his behavior disqualifies him from consideration as a candidate for mayor.

In the Democratic primary, following his scandal, Mr. Weiner’s downfall continued to expand, dropping to fourth place among likely Democratic primary voters, according to the Quinnipiac University poll released today.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn leads the Democratic pack with 27 percent, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio emerges to second critical place, with 20 percent for former Comptroller William Thompson. Mr. Weiner would get 16 percent of likely Democratic primary voters today, compared to his first- place position with 26 percent in a July 24 survey, suggesting this might be his floor of support. Only Seven percent of likely Democratic primary voters remain undecided.

The poll also suggests, that if Mr. Weiner heeds the call and drops out, Ms. Quinn would get 30 percent, with 25 percent each for Thompson and de Blasio and 9 percent for Liu.

“With six weeks to go, anything can happen, but it looks like former Congressman Anthony Weiner may have sexted himself right out of the race for New York City mayor,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “And with Wiener in free-fall, it begins to look like a three-way race again.”

In today’s survey, Weiner gets 24 percent of black Democratic likely primary voters, down from 31 percent last week. Thompson gets 22 percent, with 21 percent for Quinn and 16 percent for de Blasio. Weiner’s support among white voters drops from 23 percent last week to 7 percent today.

While Mr. de Blasio seems like the big winner benefiting off Mr. Weiner’s downfall, Bill Thompson leads Quinn 50 – 40 percent in the more important Democratic primary runoff. He leads 53 – 41 percent among men, 49 – 40 percent among women, 49 – 40 percent among white voters and 58 – 33 percent among black voters.

(Jacob Kornbluh – YWN)