So how’s Bridgegate affecting Chris Christie’s popularity? Until Hurricane Sandy in September 2012, Christie was a reasonably popular governor – around 50% favorable rating. Then with Sandy he became extremely popular – rocketing up to 70% and never going below 60% in the intervening year and a half. Since Bridgegate he’s fallen from the mid-60s to 46% favorability. In other words, Bridgegate, thus far, has lost Christie virtually all the popularity he earned from his management of the Sandy cataclysm. It’s all captured pretty clearly in this chart after the jump …
