Posted on 12/21/2010 12:23:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Chris Christie bandwagon may have hit a speed bump - at least a small one - based on results from two new polls released today.
The polls, from Quinnipiac and Rutgers-Eagleton, show Christie's approval rating in New Jersey slipping a bit, with significant majorities skeptical that he'd make a good president or vice-president. The polling shows that Christie is one of the most polarizing governors in recent New Jersey history, with more voters holding both a very favorable view of him and an extremely negative view.
The slippage comes as his national profile continues to rise (his "60 Minutes" interview the latest in the media blitz), and as he's taken on the state Supreme Court for being excessively liberal.
The Quinnipiac survey shows Christie with a 46 percent job approval rating, with 44 percent disapproving. That's down from his 51 percent approval rating last month. He also now holds a net negative rating on education, with 45 percent approving and 49 percent disapproving of his reform efforts, taking on the teachers' unions and educational establishment in the process.
For the first time in many months, Obama's approval rating has inched ahead of Christie's. The president's approval in New Jersey is now at 50 percent, up four points from last month - and the first time he's gotten majority approval since June.
The Rutgers poll found 39 percent giving Christie positive ratings, with 54 percent rating him negatively. The 28 percent of voters who consider his job performance "poor" is the second-highest for any first-year governor in the history of the poll.
And despite all the presidential buzz (which he's aggressively denied), even his supporters are skeptical that he'd be a good fit in the White House. Only 25 percent of voters said he'd make a good president - and just 50 percent of Republicans - with 63 percent disagreeing. Only 32 percent thought he'd make a good vice president.
The Quinnipiac poll was conducted Dec. 14-19, among 1,276 registered voters, for a margin of error of +/- 2.7%. The Rutgers-Eagleton poll was conducted earlier in the month, from Dec. 2-6. The Rutgers poll surveyed 906 adults, for a margin of error of +/- 3.3%.
Be Careful of what you wish for !
Many 4 year olds really hate their parents when told they can’t have a cookie.
Looks like NJ is unhappy with the gravy train coming to a halt.
Christie is fine...for New Jersey
Many 4 year olds really hate their parents when told they can’t have a cookie.
Got that right. Right now we have too many voters under the illusion that the budget problems can all be fixed by cutting the OTHER guy’s spending. Buckle your seatbelts...
People are starting to learn how much they personally benefit from fleecing their neighbors.
You can only bash teachers unions and yell on YouTube clips for so long before it gets old. Unfortunately, there isn’t much more to the guy. He is a RINO.
Lots of people HATE Christie. And I’d LOVE to jettison those losers into the Sun. The measure of a Man is the degree to which you make the World a better place. OR inversely, the degree to which jettisoning you into the Sun makes the World a better place.
As one of our founding fathers said, a democracy only holds until the people who are on the dole find out they can vote for bigger hand outs. Not an exact quote but it gets the point across.
Like that phrase, ‘the degree to which jettisoning you into the Sun makes the World a better place’....thx.
Christie talks the talk extremely well. It’s too early to say whether he will actually manage to get any concessions from the Unions, or really cut spending, which is what he needs to do.
But he is not presidential material. He MAY be what New Jersey needs to get things back on track. But even that remains to be seen. He is not reliable on the social issues.
Of course he’s slipping a bit, them enemy media has been down on him from the start and are still beating the drum against him. So what a surprised that he’s down a few, I would have expected down more than just a few by now considering the ferociousness of the attacks.
He’s treating unions as terrorist organizations...and rightly so!
You are laughable...
Ever notice how the word “polarizing” is only ever used in connection with conservative or Republican politicians... never liberals or Democrats?
State Budgets: Day of Reckoning
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7166293n&tag=related;photovideo
He loses popularity when he tells the truth. A situation you find EVERYWHERE these days.
Col. Jessup was right.
A person could get whiplash watching watching one person after another being hyped as the next great conservative hope without reserving judgement until the whole picture is shown. It must show how desperate we are for leadership.
Are you Christie's campaign manager? How is that "laughable"?
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