Cruising to re-election? Christie's got cash & high poll numbers
Good news keeps pouring in for the Christie Re-Election Campaign.
Cruising to re-election? Christie's got cash & high poll numbers
Matt Katz, Inquirer Staff Writer
Gov. Christie with traffic employee Ryan Hart earlier this month to restore Belmar's boardwalk began.
Good news keeps pouring in for the Christie Re-Election Campaign:
- Christie has 73 percent approval ratings, according to a poll this morning from Quinnipiac University, which ties him with New York's Andrew Cuomo for the most popular governor in all of the states that the university polls in.
- Christie is destroying his possible opponents. He is beating State Sen. Barbara Buono (D., Middlesex), the only Democrat who has declared, 63 to 22 percent. The other possible opponent, State Sen. Richard Codey, would lose 59 to 30 percent (although he has yet to declare).
- New Jersey loved the fact that Christie went off on Republican congressional leadership over the delayed Sandy aid vote -- 79 percent said he was right, according to the Quinnipiac poll. And Republicans don't mind, either: They still give him a 93 percent approval rating.
- Christie ammased $2.1 million in campaign donations at the very end of last year, mostly from those who wrote the maximum $3,800 checks. He got money from the likes of Cowboys great Roger Staubach (Christie is a Cowboys fan), former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and a who's who of big-name state lobbyists. As for Buono, his lone major Democratic challenger, she took in less than $250,000.
- Christie has two endorsements from unions that endorsed the other guy in 2009.
- Despite all the big names that have murmured about running against him, no one has stepped forward. No Dick Codey. No Steve Sweeney. No Bill Pascrell. And Cory Booker is already out, getting threatened with a spanking by the guy he wants to replace, Sen. Frank Lautenberg. And yet the Democratic establishment has yet to coalesce around Buono.
Comments (3)
Matt just because you hate the Governor, does not mean everyone does. Apparently your attempt to sabotage his administration has not worked.
Just think about it, would you rather have Jon Corzine back? At least this governor gets things done.— lostInPhilly- Just shows you what a man with morals and the goal of insisting that you shouls get what you pay for can do.....Truth in the spending war exposes those who are miliking the system and Christie is a plain talker and does not BS like the typical politician in Trenton or Washington....And the people are tired of the BS and the lies and the backdoor payoffs that both democrats and repubicans use.....YO Matt.....there is no one that belives that Trenton or Washington does anything but lie and cheat and overspend.....so when you can find a man who speaks plainly and truthfully, we respond with applause, money and our votes.....the only thing left is to have you and the other media ho's to start writing objective articles, sharing truth and facts without your or your editors perosnal agenda......— nuggett
- Booker is out, he would have been the only democrat in the state that would have been able to challenge.— flavious27
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Matt Katz
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Reach him at mkatz@phillynews.com or 609-217-8355.
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