Only 26 percent of New York City voters want Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for president in 2012, according to a poll released Wednesday.

The Marist College poll found that nearly two-thirds of people in the Big Apple — 64 percent — want him to stay on the sidelines.

The three-term mayor — who briefly flirted with the idea of running in 2008 as an Independent, according to a host of media reports — received a 50 percent job approval from the city�s voters in the survey.

�If Michael Bloomberg starts thinking presidential, there will be no great send-off from New York City voters,� says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

In a late-September interview on MSNBC�s �Morning Joe,� Bloomberg dismissed the idea of a 2012 run, saying he was not considering it.

�I think we should all pull behind Barack Obama,� he said. �He�s our president.�

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(Source: NY Post)