New Jersey: Voters Like Corzine as Buddy Not Governor

By CQ-Roll Call Staff | August 11, 2009 8:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

New Jersey Gov. John Corzine continues to lag behind his Republican challenger Christopher Christie, although the margin between them has been shaved by 3 percentage points, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Aug. 5-9.

The poll found Christie leading Corzine 51 percent to 42 percent. The same poll in July had Christie leading 53 percent to 41 percent.

Corzine, a Democrat, is facing a pair of problems with voters, who don't like the way he's doing his job and who perceive members of his party in their state as corrupt. Corzine's disapproval rating stands at 58 percent, while his approval rating is 36 percent, the Quinnipiac poll said. In July his job approval was at 33 percent, while disapproval was 60 percent.

Voters blame Democrats over Republicans for corruption in New Jersey by greater than a 3-1 margin, 50 percent to 15 percent.

Those issues aside, 42 percent of those surveyed said they'd like to spend an afternoon at the beach with Corzine, versus 36 percent who said they'd prefer to hang out at Sandy Hook with Christie. T The poll was based on interviews with 1,167 likely New Jersey voters and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.

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Comments

I have to say that I agree with the 42% here. All the times I saw Corzine on TV he seemed quite affable, even though I don't agree with him politically. I haven't seen Christie interviewed.

Posted by: NObama | August 11, 2009 6:51 PM