Governor Christie reaches new low in job approval

[StevieM]

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has reached a new low. In job approval rating, that is.

A new Quinnipiac University poll out from January shows 17 percent of New Jersey residents approve of Christie's performance, while 78 disapprove.

The poll was conducted from January 26-30 among 1,240 New Jersey voters. The stunning part of this latest poll is Christie's standing among Republican voters in the Garden State. Just 39 percent approve, while 53 percent disapprove.

The latest Quinnipiac poll shows a 2 percent decrease in support for Christie from December.

The drop in support comes during a time when Christie has been taking some relatively moderate stances on issues, such as increasing funding for drug addiction treatment and taking measures to make getting treatment for addicts easier.

Christie reached his peak popularity in the months following Superstorm Sandy, with his approval rating reaching into the 70s in late 2012 and early 2013.

Since then, scandal, political ambition and ultimately, his endorsement of Donald Trump were all factors in the downfall in poll numbers, that according to Politico New Jersey reporter and author of New Jersey Playbook Matt Friedman.

"Bridgegate started the slide, it brought him down. People started viewing him differently, and when the Governor started spending more and more time out of state. He spent the majority of 2015 out of state when he ran for President. People had enough, they felt like he wasn't committed to the job."

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[MFM008]

1. Is he still alive?

Hes fallen so far off the radar since Nov 8. I forgot about him.

[underpants]

2. And his wife wanted to move back to this?

Uh huh

[democratisphere]

3. Chris is done.

Time to go back to real estate closings.

[dawg]

4. Why do supposedly "blue" states keep electing idiots like that?

We were shocked, just shocked, that WI, MI & PA turned red in the presidential election. But two of the three have Republican governors, so maybe we shouldn't have been so surprised.

[StevieM]

5. Walker and Snyder are very unpopular. I think that helped bolster Clinton's strength in those states

for awhile.

Ultimately, the fake email scandal overrode all that when the FBI intervened to rig the election.

[dawg]

6. Walker was popular enough to survive the recall.

I also think is was very telling that Feingold lost.

[NJCher]

7. Cuz the Democrats here suck

Jon Corzine? Former Goldman Sachs president? He was our last governor. The idiot got into an accident not wearing his seat belt.

We have machine politics at its finest. Sweeney, Norcross. They all play ball with Christie.

The good news is we have some good candidates in the wings. The election next year will be very telling about where this state is at.


Cher

[SticksnStones]

8. He raised the gas tax .23 cents per gallon.

It was the final straw ~ my republican relatives in NJ who backed him for president are done with him.