Here’s some more New Jersey news Chris Christie won’t like. The Monmouth University Poll out today finds that positive opinion of the state as a place to live stands at a 35-year low of 55%. This has caused the overall Garden State Quality of Life Index to drop to +18. “Currently, just over half of New Jerseyans say the state is either an excellent (12%) or good (43%) place to call home, while 30% rate it as only fair and 15% as poor. This 55% positive rating is down from 63% just a few months ago. It also marks an all-time low since this question has been asked in New Jersey opinion polls going back to 1980. The prior bottom point was 57% in August 2011,” the poll said in a news release. “New Jerseyans still like their towns and their neighbors. They’re just having a hard time with the state as a whole,” said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
Earlier this week, Christie attacked pollster Murray personally.
“Just look at Patrick Murray and his tweets,” Christie said. “There couldn’t be a less objective pollster about Chris Christie in America. The guy’s an advocate. He’s a liberal advocate.” POLITICO points out other polls show Christie at the back of the pack too. According to them, “the governor’s assessment is way off the mark.”
One of the many complaints shown in Murray’s polls is that New Jersey residents think Christie should stay at home and tend to New Jersey problems instead of being out of state so much to run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. They also think the expenses for New Jersey state troopers who accompany the governor on his personal political trips should not be paid for by taxpayers. Christie disagrees.
Read the POLITICO article here.
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