Business Poll: Christie approval at 20 percent; 'Don't know' leads among Dem, GOP primaries

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/eb0a7c2b-19f2-3a6d-a42a-ef3a28a23b0d/ss_poll%3A-christie-approval-at-20.html

Gov. Chris Christie’s approval rating is out of the teens, but the governor remains deeply unpopular. A Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll released Tuesday puts the Republican governor's approval rating at 20 percent and his disapproval rating at 72 percent. In a January FDU poll, Christie’s approval rating was 18 percent. The 2 percentage point change is within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points, making it statistically insignificant.

However, the drop in his disapproval rating — from 78 percent in January — is statistically significant.
“As the clock continues to advance toward the end of his administration, Governor Christie remains mired in a world of public displeasure,” Krista Jenkins, a professor of political science and director of the FDU poll, said in a statement that accompanied the poll results. “His twenty percent approval rating puts him in the company of relatively few who left office while being held in such low public regard. And the fact that so few believe the state is headed in the right direction under his leadership underscores the frustration that many feel.”
According to the poll, 67 percent of voters say the state is on the wrong track, with just 24 percent saying it’s headed in the right direction. Fifty-eight percent say they are “frustrated” with state government; 83 percent say the state is doing either a fair or poor job of running its programs; and just 11 percent trust the government in Trenton to do the right thing all or most of the time.

However, the drop in his disapproval rating — from 78 percent in January — is statistically significant.
“As the clock continues to advance toward the end of his administration, Governor Christie remains mired in a world of public displeasure,” Krista Jenkins, a professor of political science and director of the FDU poll, said in a statement that accompanied the poll results. “His twenty percent approval rating puts him in the company of relatively few who left office while being held in such low public regard. And the fact that so few believe the state is headed in the right direction under his leadership underscores the frustration that many feel.”
According to the poll, 67 percent of voters say the state is on the wrong track, with just 24 percent saying it’s headed in the right direction. Fifty-eight percent say they are “frustrated” with state government; 83 percent say the state is doing either a fair or poor job of running its programs; and just 11 percent trust the government in Trenton to do the right thing all or most of the time.
When it comes to selecting a replacement for Christie, the most popular choice is “don’t know.” Full Story at link :



Chris here folks, nothing to see here, fake news , lying polls ,evil media. The people love me and they beg me to run for another term.
In the tens of thousands of them down on one knee begging me to run for office for a third term.Everywhere I go in the multitudes begging me to stay.Great, large ,huge in the numbers, bigly very very bigly.

[beachbum bob]

1. some one more hated than trump....

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

2. Did Christie's job approval rating finally hit bottom?

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on March 28, 2017 at 7:00 AM, updated March 28, 2017 at 9:09 AM



TRENTON -- The job approval pit into which Gov. Chris Christie seemed to be falling endlessly may not bottomless after all.
While the vast majority of New Jerseyans disapprove of the job the Republican is doing, Christie is faring slightly better than a few months ago, according to a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll released Tuesday.
Seventy-two percent of voters said they disapprove of the governor's leadership, while 20 percent approve.


That's an ever so slight improvement from the last time an FDU poll was taken in late January, when just 18 percent of voters approved of the job he was doing. 

it's the first time in years that the governor has not reached a record low.
"As the clock continues to advance toward the end of his administration, Governor Christie remains mired in a world of public displeasure," said Krista Jenkins, a professor of political science at FDU and director of the poll.
Among Republicans, 52 percent disapprove of the job Christie is doing, while only 40 percent approve.
The survey found that less than a fourth of Garden Staters believe the state is "on a good path," while more than two-thirds think the opposite.
While unemployment in the state is now 4.4 percent, or two-tenths of a point below the national average, the state has just received it's 11th credit rating downgrade under the governor.
"His twenty percent approval rating puts him in the company of relatively few who left office while being held in such low public regard," Jenkins said. "And the fact that so few believe the state is headed in the right direction under his leadership underscores the frustration that many feel."

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/03/christies_approval_rating_just_crept_out_of_the_su.html#incart_river_index



A look back at the Bridgegate scandal, as sentencing approaches...

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2017/03/a_look_back_at_the_bridgegate_scandal_as_sentencin.html#incart_river_index


By Ted Sherman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
NEWARK—More than four months after their conviction in the Bridgegate trial, Bill Baroni and Bridget Anne Kelly, once members of Gov. Chris Christie's inner circle, are facing their day of sentencing Wednesday.
Because of the unusual nature of the charges in the case, including civil rights violations for interfering with the ability to travel, they two could each be looking at nearly four years in prison, according to legal experts.

shutdown
Baroni, 44, the Port Authority's former deputy executive director, and Kelly, also 44, a one-time deputy chief of staff to Gov. Chris Christie, were charged with helping orchestrate the shutdown of several local toll lanes at the George Washington Bridge in 2013 in a scheme of political retribution targeting the mayor of Fort Lee over his refusal to endorse the governor for re-election. After a seven-week trial, the two were found guilty

Gov. Chris Christie during his 2013 re-election campaign. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)
Playing politics
In the summer of 2013, as Christie re-election bid was in full swing, campaign officials were seeking to garner endorsements from local Democratic officials, burnishing Christie's national image in advance of a presidential run by a show of wide bipartisan support support.
The administration's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, a public office set up to facilitated the relationships between the governor's staff and state and local officials, began playing a role in seeking those endorsements.

Drew Angerer | Getty Images
A plan of retribution
Kelly, who headed the office, had been in regular contact with David Wildstein, a political appointee to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He would later testify that he used the agency's resources to to bolster support among Democrats for the governor.
And when Kelly expressed disappointment to Wildstein that For Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich was not likely to support the governor, Wildstein proposed a plan. He told her they could use the local toll lanes at the George Washington Bridge to cause traffic tie-ups in Fort Lee "whenever it would be advantageous to do so..."