Obama beating Christie in New Jersey

The Mainstream Media has been gushing over New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and adulating his pugnacious governing style and so-called blunt honesty, yet New Jersey residents couldn't disagree anymore.Christie was swept into office not because residents felt he was a viable option, but because of an unpopular Democratic incumbent and reliably democratic voters staying home on election day. Ever since assuming office, the gargantuan governor has done everything in his power to play to his powerful Wall Street backers in his seemingly relentless crusade against those greedy teachers, elderly nursing home patients and public workers, all the while giving his ever-so frugal and suffering multi-millionaire backers a free pass.

According to a new poll released by Public Policy Polling, Chris Christie doesn't even come close to beating President Obama in New Jersey in a potential presidential match-up. This may not come as major shock to the most apolitical among us, but Chris Christie is a super Republican heavyweight. And even though New Jersey has been reliably democratic in all general elections--Obama won the state by more than 15 points in 2008, his popularity has not changed in the last seven months, and the last time New Jersey went for a Republican was in 1988--New Jersey has increasingly become sort of a tease for Republicans at the presidential level. Consequently, the GOP thought they found 800 pounds of new found hope in Chris Christie. But boy where they off, as Christie's popularity has sunk to all time lows as New Jersey voters begin to realize the travesty of their knee-jerk reaction on election day.

A pool of 480 registered voters queried from July 15 through 18 disapproved of the job Christie is doing, 53 percent to 43 percent. Self-described moderates gave the Republican chief executive a much bigger thumbs down, 62 percent disapproval to 34 percent approval, according to the Public Policy poll.

Advertisement Apparently being a screaming sycophant for Wall Street special interests and his uber-rich Republican buddies hasn't quite worked out for Christie. From his veto of the so-called “millionaires’ tax”—a state income tax hike on residents who earn over $1 million annually—sent to him last week by the Democratic-controlled Legislature, to slashing funds for medicaid and aid for nursing homes, Christie isn't governing like the moderate he claimed to be on the campaign trail.



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Christie needs a good beating!

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I live in a neighborhood filled with police officers, fire fighters and teachers. I have never seen people react like this about a governor of New Jersey. My taxes still keep going up and I am out over $1000.00 in property tax relief but he gave millionaires a billion dollar tax break. I can't wait until he is up for election again so we can squash him like a bug!

He's bigger than Mothra!

I'm not sure how well liked or hated he is in my neighborhood since I don't really talk about politics with my neighbors.