jimnyc
02-26-2014, 11:13 AM
TRENTON, N.J., Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The once untouchably popular governor of New Jersey has found himself falling -- and fast.
A new poll finds Chris Christie's approval ratings at home plummeting, down 20 percent from last year, even as he got a warm reception at the National Governors Association meeting this week.
Nearly half of all residents -- 44 percent -- say they disapprove of the job the second-term governor is doing, up from 17 percent last February and 25 percent from just two months ago, the Monmouth University-Ashbury Park Press poll found.
In the same one-year period, his approval has fallen from 70 percent down to 50.
"Christie's image as the hero of Sandy is now just a fading memory," Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said.
The governor, a rare case of a Republican with a record of success in a Democratic state, has seen his fortunes fall since revelations that his staffers ran punitive campaigns against his political opponents. Christie has denied any knowledge of his aide's actions.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/02/25/Chris-Christie-approval-tanks-in-NJ/4501393365287/
A new poll finds Chris Christie's approval ratings at home plummeting, down 20 percent from last year, even as he got a warm reception at the National Governors Association meeting this week.
Nearly half of all residents -- 44 percent -- say they disapprove of the job the second-term governor is doing, up from 17 percent last February and 25 percent from just two months ago, the Monmouth University-Ashbury Park Press poll found.
In the same one-year period, his approval has fallen from 70 percent down to 50.
"Christie's image as the hero of Sandy is now just a fading memory," Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said.
The governor, a rare case of a Republican with a record of success in a Democratic state, has seen his fortunes fall since revelations that his staffers ran punitive campaigns against his political opponents. Christie has denied any knowledge of his aide's actions.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/02/25/Chris-Christie-approval-tanks-in-NJ/4501393365287/