POLL: Majority in New Jersey Don't Want Republican Golden (Big) Boy Christie Re-Elected

[jefferson_dem]

Majority Don't Want Christie Re-Elected

A new Bloomberg New Jersey poll finds 51% of New Jersey residents say they wouldn't back Gov. Chris Christie for a second term, "disapproving of his choices on a range of policy and personal issues, from killing a commuter tunnel to using a state-police helicopter to attend his son's baseball game."

Said pollster Ann Selzer: "It just feels as though Christie misread the public on education or believed that he had to go that far in cutting the budget. Even if it's the latter, he didn't rhetorically sell it to his audience properly. They're not with him."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/06/29/majority_dont_want_christie_re-elected.html

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. But hey, he'd be a shoo-in for the Presidency of the United States of America, right?

:sarcasm:

[Pharaoh]

2. they should just recall him

before he does anymore damage. Does NJ have a recall option?

[karynnj]

5. Yes, but the thought is that it should be used for malfeisance - not changing the result of an

election. The right wing wanted to recall Menendez - saying he was no longer what the state would vote for. In that case, the fact that it is a federal office made the Senator argue it was illegal.

I suspect that - bad as he is - many would vote against a recall on principle.

[Kind of Blue]

3. Ridiculous, Christie made his intentions loud and clear

from the get go. He was just as scary then as he is now. I'll never understand what people who vote for jokers like Christie, Rick Scott and Walker think they're really getting when they do what they say they will during their campaigns.
KnR.

[starroute]

4. Maybe it's because Democrats often weasel on their own promises

That leads the voters to discount at least 50% of what the candidates say and assume that no matter what they run on, they'll government from the middle.

Problem with these jerks is that they get even more radical after they're elected.

[Kind of Blue]

8. That is the pattern to me too that

they're even more radical right, especially during the last 10 years. It's just a wonder to expect otherwise even running as a moderate with a nice endorsement from Bush - after being a big-time Bush fundraiser, meetings with Rove, a lobbyist for deregulation and other shenanigans as NJ's U.S. attorney.

It's one thing when some Dems weasel on their promises, it's just baffling to me have a campaigning weasel and not have a sense of foreboding no matter what he or she says.

[karynnj]

6. Actually - he was the "moderate" in the primary - to Steve Lonigan

In the general election, he refused to give specifics on anything he would do. Corzine did not run a positive campaign and Christie was smart enough to play victim and coast on people calling him a moderate.

It may be true that Scott is doing what he said - but Christie DEFINITELY isn't.

[jenmito]

7. A BIG, FAT K&R! n/t

[JustAnotherGen]

9. You know

Boo effing hoo. That same ‘majority’ voted him in here – and now they play stupid. He absolutely DID run on everything he’s now doing.

They wanted someone to ‘clean up Trenton’ – well they got what they wanted.

On the other side of the aisle - I’m just livid at the boo-hooing especially when making phone calls to Dems I heard, “It doesn’t matter anyways.” Really? Corzine would not have let that tunnel to NY go and he wouldn’t be screwing around with women’s health care or education either.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. One more thing

Let this a lesson to all the other Democratics, Liberals, Progressives around this country that are insistent they will not vote for Obama for a second term.


Take a good hard look at New Jersey. You want this bullshit all over America? Then you go right ahead and hand over the WH to any of those Repugnant candidates in 2012 while 'proving your point'.