If retiring Republican U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie were to run for governor, he’d lose to Democratic Gov. Corzine by 42 percent to 36 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll of registered New Jersey voters released today.
Many of those surveyed – 70 percent – said they didn’t know enough about Christie to form an opinion about him but they did know enough about Corzine.
Respondents gave Corzine a 46 percent disapproval rating. Still, that is better news for Corzine than in previous polls where as many as 52 percent of the voters disapproved of the job he was doing as governor.
While Christie suffers from low recognition among voters, he has yet to declare himself as a gubernatorial candidate or run a campaign to persuade voters to elect him.
Corzine is in the early stages of his re-election campaign and has pr oven he can use his substantial personal wealth to finance strong campaign advertising and field operations. He also has the state's deep blue trend in his favor.
No Republican has won statewide office since 1997 when former GOP Gov. Christie Whitman ran for reelection.
Christie announced Monday that he would resign effective Dec. 1. Republican leaders want him to run for governor and those close to Christie say he will consider his options and make his plans known early next year.
During Christie’s tenure, his office has secured guilty pleas or convictions of more than 130 elected and appointed officials. Yesterday, jurors found former Democratic Camden County state Sen. Wayne Bryant guilty on corruption charges.
Bryant, who did not seek reelection last fall, was accused of taking a $35,000 low-show job at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in exchange for getting $10.5 million in state grants for the school.
The Quinnipiac poll of 2,020 registered voters was conducted between Nov. 12 and Nov. 17 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.
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