Hughes Center Poll confirms Christie is dropping

by: Hopeful

Fri May 13, 2011 at 08:00:04 PM EDT

Conservatives have loved to point to Chris Christie as a "popular" governor polling above 50%, but today a William J. Hughes Center Poll (PDF) confirms that Christie would get crushed by Obama for President and is trouble even for re-election:

"When we asked about a hypothetical campaign between President Obama and Gov. Christie, voters favored Obama over Christie by 51% to 33.5%," said Hughes Center Executive Director Sharon Schulman. "We also asked if they agreed or disagreed that Christie should run for President in 2012, 68.8% of the voters somewhat or strongly disagreed with him running."
...NJ voters were slightly positive on their overall opinion of Christie in general (48.8% favorable vs. 45.4% unfavorable). When asked if the election for NJ governor was held today would they vote to re-elect Christie, voters were evenly split at 44.6% "yes" and 44.1%

This is a poll of 1,000 likely voters, so Christie would probably do worse amongst a wider sample. Many voters said Christie's confrontational style has alienated them.

65.6% of voters view President Obama "favorably" or "somewhat favorably."

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May he fry in his own grease. (0.00 / 0)

I hope some of those surveyed were parents who suddenly realized their kids will face overcrowded and underfunded schools in Sept . . . or perhaps one or two of the many teachers who lost their jobs (and probably any chance of teaching again) this week.

Yeah, I know, "the money isn't there"-I use that line on my kids. But between you and me, very I often do have the money-I just want to spend it on something else.

Has Chairman Christie's Cultural Revolution peaked?

(Can't wait until folks stop hating teachers. Yesterday, I told someone I was a telemarketer.)

by: Nowlan @ Sun May 15, 2011 at 12:34:54 PM UTC