Gov. Christie dropped out of the presidential nomination race and is spending more time in New Jersey but his approval rating continues to plummet. His approval rating with registered voters in 26 percent, three points lower since he stop running for president, according to the Rutgers Eagleton poll. His unfavorable rating is 64 percent, the highest recorded for him since he took office. That isn’t all about his spending so much time running for president. The poll found just 3 percent of his detractors mentioned anything about that. “Christie’s unpopularity stems from the same longstanding reasons that voters have cited in both their praise and condemnation of him throughout his tenure – reasons that disenchanted voters emphasize now more than ever two months after Christie’s return to governing full time,” said Ashley Koning, assistant director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University.
“Voters are kinder in their ratings to U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez than they are to Christie, even in the face of Menendez’s ongoing federal indictment: while only 29 percent are favorable toward the senior senator, just 32 percent are outright unfavorable, and 39 percent have no opinion. Not even Republicans reach a majority in their opposition to Menendez, a stark constraint to the nine in 10 Democrats who feel the same about Christie,” the poll said in a news release.
“Voters are most positive toward U.S. Sen. Cory Booker: 48 percent are favorable, 23 percent are unfavorable, and another 30 percent have no opinion. Sixty-four percent of Democrats, 47 percent of independents, and even 26 percent of Republicans like Booker.”
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