Poll: Christie support drops to all-time low in N.J.

NJ Spotlight News | February 13, 2015 | Politics

Gov. Chris Christie's travels outside New Jersey are not helping his poll numbers inside the Garden State. (OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR/TIM LARSEN)
Gov. Chris Christie’s travels outside New Jersey are not helping his poll numbers inside the Garden State. (OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR/TIM LARSEN)
By Andrew George for NJBIZ

As Gov. Chris Christie pivots to the national stage in anticipation of a formal presidential bid, a new Rutgers-Eagleton Poll released Friday shows that just 37 percent of New Jersey voters still have a favorable impression of him.

The figure represents an all-time low for Christie and marks a slide of seven percentage points in just the last two months.

As for Christie’s job approval rating, the poll found that it, too, has fallen in recent months as 52 percent of New Jerseyans now disapprove of the governor’s performance. The number of voters who still approve of the job Christie is doing, some 42 percent, has dropped by six percentage points since December.

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