NJ-Quinnipiac: Obama beats Christie by double-digits

[Tender Branson]

New Jersey voters do not believe Gov. Christopher Christie's claim that he would beat President Barack Obama in a 2012 White House run and back the president over the governor 52 - 39 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. President Obama also tops Gov. Christie in job approval and likeability.

Gov. Christie's split 47 - 46 percent job approval compares to a 52 - 40 percent job approval in a February 9 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University.

In today's survey, men approve of Christie 56 - 38 percent as women disapprove 53 - 38 percent. Christie gets an 80 - 16 percent approval from Republicans and a 55 - 36 percent approval from independent voters. Democrats disapprove 75 - 17 percent.

Obama gets a 51 - 45 percent job approval. Garden State voters like Obama more than they like his policies.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1299.xml?ReleaseID=1590

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Was Christie's claim of being able to beat Obama made before or after his Shermanesque refusal to run for President?

[krazen1211]

     Was Christie's claim of being able to beat Obama made before or after his Shermanesque refusal to run for President?

Both, I suppose. He made a Sherman statement, claimed he could beat Obama, and then made another Sherman statement.


Doesn't matter. NJ is out of reach in a Presidential contest. Statewide is obviously another story. Thanks to Christie, the NJ Republican party is something more than the NJEA's sloppy seconds.