Only 37 percent of New Jersey voters gave New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) a favorable rating, according to a new Rutgers-Eagleton Poll released Friday.
The 37 percent finding means there’s been a decline of 7 points in the last two months. A majority also said they had an unfavorable view of the governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate.
“For the first time, a clear majority (53 percent) feels unfavorable toward the governor,” the poll said. “His overall job approval is also clearly negative: 52 percent disapprove while 42 percent approve, a drop of six points since December.”
Twenty percent of those surveyed said Christie’s at times abrasive personality was to blame for his declining popularity. Another 15 percent cited Bridgegate, the controversy over massive lane closures on the George Washington Bridge that critics say was due to one of Christie’s political vendettas. Ten percent said the decline was because Christie was ignoring his duties as governor in order to possibly run for president.
The good news for Christie though is that the poll found voters are split on whether he’s been a good governor.
“38 percent of voters are positive, 33 percent negative, and 29 percent neutral,” the poll said. “But voters are increasingly negative on the direction of the state: 35 percent say New Jersey is going in the right direction, while 54 percent say it is on the wrong track.”
The poll was conducted among 694 registered voters across New Jersey between February 3 and February 10. The margin of error was plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.
Wow! What a ringing endorsement from the people that put their trust in him!
His image of someone wearing a Godzilla suit and attacking the George Washington Bridge is not very presidential. He is a cut above Rand Paul in terms of actually being able to run the country, but not by much. He is a small-town Jersey major with a little bit of administrative ability and an instinct to bully. America will be better off without him on the national scene.
Residents of NJ understand he has bigger ambitions that preclude governing at home, so they see him in Great Britain being ambivalent on vaccinations, on the road with a governors’ association, being a guest of a well heeled business association at a football game, and all in all not taking care of business of being a governor. Let’s not even mention how rude and contemptible he is toward his his constituents and others.
That’s what you get for doing crap like putting Iowa pork producers ahead of the citizens of New Jersey who want to ban gestation crates. What a loser.
He’s trying to moderate his abrasive nature while on the campaign trail, but it is just a matter of time before he tells someone to sit down and shut up. I can only hope the ‘evil media’ will be there to record and report his charm offensive.