Poll Shows Chris Christie Has Huge Lead In Governor's Race
A Quinnipiac University poll released this week shows Chris Christie with a big lead over his Democratic challenger, state Sen. Barbara Buono.
Gov. Chris Christie is the best person to lead New Jersey over the next four years, according to voters recently polled in a survey released this week by Quinnipiac University.
Christie, a Republican, leads his Democratic rival, state Sen. Barbara Buono (D-Middlesex), 62 percent to 25 percent in the state's 2013 gubernatorial race, according to the poll.
The governor's overall approval rating also remains high. Christie's 74 percent approval rating and 69 percent favorable rating tie his personal record highs from January, the Huffington Post reports, both numbers buoyed by public perception of the way he handled Hurricane Sandy's impact and its aftermath.
Christie appears to have strong support on the other side of the aisle, as well.
In the poll, 56 percent of Democrats said they approve of the Republican governor and 48 percent said he deserves reelection.
Although Christie wasn't the GOP's final choice for vice-president in last year's presidential election, if he decides to run for president in 2016, it seems he'll have strong support in his home state.
Poll results showed 49 percent of voters supporting Hillary Clinton and 45 percent voting for Christie in that race.
Quinnipiac surveyed 1,149 registered voters for the poll.
Do you think Gov. Christie deserves another term? Tell us in the Comments section below.
Whatever
9:56 am on Monday, February 25, 2013
Christie/Rubio would be a fantastic 2016 Presidential ticket
mjmjr
5:50 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
PLEASE FIX THE DIVORCE LAWS IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY,THEY SUCK.
Jaded
5:53 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
Would love to see this in 2016.
KC
1:14 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
donuts and waterbottles?
Holmdel Repubs
10:45 am on Monday, February 25, 2013
Dems shoulda stuck with Codey. Gonna be a non-event no matter who is against C2.
Tom Cular
9:53 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Codey wasn't horrible but he's also a career politician.
Uncle Moe
11:03 am on Monday, February 25, 2013
Chris Christie is a total sellout, and extremely unprofessional. This poor excuse for a "governor" has failed our state and rehearses the republican party talking points to the book. Barbara Buono is just as bad, but please lets end the Christie cult of personality. He's impolite, loud and obnoxious. Typical New Jersey, at this point. He is anything BUT a leader. Our state still lags behind and he sold out to the gun control agenda.
Whatever
4:10 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
Keep dreaming Uncle Moe, Christie will get easily re-elected
Chris Christie has been the best New Jersey governor this state has ever seen
proud
6:52 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
@ paulie, which one were you referring to?
Dozer Dave
12:05 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
What exactly has Christie done?
no this doesn't count
this no bid contract by Gilmore and Christie has fleeced the tax payers out of millions
Citing an emergency, the state did not make competitive contracts for cleanup work available to local officials until late last month, about 90 days after Sandy inflicted historic damage. A total of 43 towns have operated under the no-bid contract for those three months, paying rates that were in many cases considerably higher than towns that did not hire AshBritt.
Ann Powers
9:35 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Not true. The AshBritt contract saved towns loads of $$. Just compare to the debris removal work and costs realized w/those contractors who came in immediately. AshBritt did a professional job. I don't like the way Gilmore got his hand in the pie, but the change was a plus for us. BTW - no-bid awards are permitted in emergencies, and if ever there was one!!!, this was it.
re-tired
2:27 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
He lost my vote with the shore debacle, sold out the bayshore to fema and its maps. Eat another do-nut you f-f ....
Whatever
4:11 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
Christie did the best job possible under Sandy, and guess what ?
he wil get re-elected EASILY
foggyworld
10:06 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
To Whatever: Christie hasn't done the best job possible under Sandy. He alone out of all the governors involved just handed his powers and responsibilities to FEMA one of the least effective agencies in the nation. Anyone touched by Sandy and the Catch 22 game the Governor has set up for us will note vote for him.
He may win but by the time he runs for the White House the truth of the financial and emotional damage he has caused people will be known and his legacy from this State's tanking won't help him one bit.
Dozer Dave
11:01 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
@ Ann Powers
read this
"A total of 43 towns have operated under the no-bid contract for those three months, paying rates that were in many cases considerably higher than towns that did not hire AshBritt." kindly explain how Ashbritt did a better job except they charged MORE and don't forget they kicked in 300 k to the all you can eat buffet Gov super pac
I have spoken
2:47 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
Christie for governor 2013.....Christie for president 2016~!!!!!!!
Robert Yates
3:02 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
Who cares? My taxes have gone up every year since coming back to this political wasteland. The machine rolls on!
tom thornton
7:00 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
No body is holding you here.
Why not leave?
KC
1:17 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Tom Thornton
Nobody here can sell. Who the hey is going to buy a home at the shore? I mean there are these beautiful homes with for sale signs on them for years now, BEFORE Sandy. You make a silly statement. Surely you jest.
shorefriend
7:47 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
@ KC, I disagree it's a buyers market right now, wait and see
Robert Yates
8:42 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
@tom thornton: I always chuckle at this nonsensical response. Let me ask you a couple of questions: Are you ABLE to do everything you WANT to do? And even if you are able, could there perhaps be other factors in one's life that may outweigh and hence justify living in a political wasteland?
make my day
5:58 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
OBAMA helps those who play nice to him and the democraps. so to those who claim Christie soldout, you are the ones that would scream the loudest if he didn't get federal help. i agree a Christie/Rubio ticket would be great.
bayway mike
6:41 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
Wasn't Rubio born in Cuba?? Just like Romney was born in Mexico!!! Oh wait, They were born out of this country but from American citizens..
Dozer Dave
6:57 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
can you explain what happened to the 400 million he missed out on with education because his guy couldn't fill out a form?
Again besides the no contract for super pac money what exactly has Gov tele tubby done?
foggyworld
10:09 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
The people haven't gotten federal help: the State, counties and towns have. The homeowners have gotten the shaft in good part because Christie gave control over the situation to that lackluster group called Fema.
foggyworld
11:53 am on Wednesday, April 3, 2013
What federal help?
Missing Brick
7:08 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
This guy is a weak negotiator. He got NOTHING for the homeowners of Ocean county and you can expect him to do nothing going forward. The only thing with more pork in it than the bill he accepted is his diet. Please Christie, quit while you are ahead and there is something left to govern.
.
6:36 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Please tell me who they are asking when they conduct these polls. I would really love for someone to ask me and a lot of people that I know that can't wait to vote against this lying sack of garbage.
shorefriend
7:50 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Obviously you all are in the minority! The poll was taken on the Tom's river patch should not be too hard to figure out who is taking the poll, probably all of your neighbors!!
Dozer Dave
7:00 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
They asked Gilmore and the Ocean County Freeloaders
any one seen Runyan or Connors?
Opinionated
9:06 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Let's face facts folks, Christie's biggest plus is that he is not Corzine, McGreevey, Florio, or Whitman. He has followed a robber baron, a man who put his lover in a cushy high paying job then when he's called on it he cries persecution because he's gay, NJ's answer to Bloomburg, and a woman who told Congress the air at Ground Zero is non-toxic. That's why NJ loves him. You can't fault him for not making more progress because our Legislature is just as bad as the aforementioned "Governors" that were inflicted upon us.
Dozer Dave
9:15 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
exactly Christie has done nothing
foggyworld
10:19 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
He really has done something: he abdicated his power and responsibilities to those hit by Sandy by being the only governor to sign away his power to keep Fema in line.
He cleared his desk of this responsibility so that he could run for two campaigns in the future.
So he has done something: ripped the shore apart for the middle class especially those on the western side of Barnegat Bay who are being boxed in by Fema games that trigger insurance policies of say $2500 a month for homes that are close to but not quite in total compliance with some questionable new ideas about how to live in a hurricane prevention house.
He will be remembered by all of us involved no matter where we and our future tax money goes. It won't be in NJ but he has created a group of disenfranchised people who will scatter around this nation and make sure people from everywhere know just what he did in a crisis: He killed off the middle class tax base in several counties forever and are letting them be slaughtered financially and emotionally.
Whatever
9:41 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
This is for bayway mike, Marco Rubio was born in Miami, it's his parents that were born in Cuba
foggyworld
10:24 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
I don't know the answer but am in a Rubio situation. Your parents could have immigrated here and you might well have been born here, but if your parents were not American citizens when you were born back then that glitch becomes the issue if you run for the Presidency. Nothing else and no one yet has really contested a situation similar to his in front of the Courts. In today's more liberal world, I think Rubio would qualify.
anonymous
10:52 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
I'm still waiting on when CC is going to fix a "little scandal" within his own administration. Had this been someone else, he would have nailed them to the cross.
http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/05/14/11690662-gov-christies-pension-issue-nj-probe-looks-at-running-mate-double-dipping
.
3:56 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Don't hold your breath. This guy is only a loudmouth when he can put someone else down. Do you ever remember hearing him say a word about Mike Ritacco either? That was his good buddy that held a big fund raiser for Christie at his home in Seaside Park a few years ago. Had Ritacco been a Democrat, we would still be hearing about it. Dump this guy as governor before he ruins this state more.
foggyworld
7:59 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
"Little" it is not. There is absolutely no excuse for any person with the power Christie held during most of his time in office not doing away once and for all the ability of people to take down two or three civil service jobs and huge pensions that we just cannot afford. The Governor is ALL talk and no action.
Opinionated
12:28 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Hey, that scandal could be an issue but won't hold a candle to these. Unless you are OK with such behavior which could be the case.. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/us/politics/menendez-discouraged-giving-port-security-equipment-to-dominicans.html?_r=2&; or this http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/nyregion/partisan-push-led-to-troubling-revelations-about-senator-menendez.html?_r=0
anonymous
4:23 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Your off topic. We are talking about Christie.
Mrgrumpass
5:50 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Menendez is as corrupt as the Governor who appointed him! Good Job!
foggyworld
8:00 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
It's not totally off topic. Look at the list of losers we in NJ have put in office and ask yourselves what is wrong here?
foggyworld
11:59 am on Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Corrupt politicians are spread throughout both parties.
Hollyrock
12:56 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
when is the patch going to do an article mayor Stahl running as a republican for Buono's seat? The star ledger reported it this weekend and it has been the worst kept secret in town for quite a while
foggyworld
8:02 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Maybe never. The overwhelming response today would be, Who is Buono? It's amazing that the democrats are again unable to find a strong, honest, truthful person to run against someone who ought to be put out to pasture. Both parties are part of one big rotten mess and maybe we need an Independent to clean house.
kevin muniz
9:34 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Look at the last 4 years. Let him run on his record with one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation and one of the highest foreclosure rates.What has he done for the average New Jersey family over the last 4 years? What has changed? Diddly Squat...That's what. Actually when you look at the numbers things have gotten worse....Buono just needs to keep hammering away at those numbers of the last 4 years.
Helen
8:30 am on Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Agreed...I don't know if he has it in the bag as so many think. You never know, someone in the race might surprise you. Personally on his real record I don't feel he has done all that much then start confusion.
Cathi
7:27 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
RHINO
anonymous
7:06 am on Tuesday, March 26, 2013
I firmly believe he is going to win, but after the helicopter debacle at his son's baseball game; placing friends into high-paying jobs at the Port Authority and other agencies, along with the below--he lost my vote. As they say, "Do as I say, not as I do."
http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/05/14/11690662-gov-christies-pension-issue-nj-probe-looks-at-running-mate-double-dipping?lite