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Tue Jan 21, 2014, 12:54 PM Jan 2014

Poll: Unfavorable views of Christie double in mid-January

A Pew Research Center/USA Today Poll conducted Jan. 15-19 among 1,504 adults finds that 38% have a favorable impression of Gov. Chris Christie while 34% have an unfavorable view, and 28% offer no opinion.

Read more at http://www.politickernj.com/back_room/poll-unfavorable-views-christie-double-mid-january#ixzz2r3KtyKhp


Christie’s Image Turns More Negative

Most Don’t Believe His Assertions on Highway Controversy

Chris Christie’s public image today is starkly different than it was a year ago. Last January, following Christie’s visible role in Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, favorable opinions outnumbered unfavorable ones by more than two-to-one. Today, in the wake of a scandal involving highway lane closures that led to massive traffic jams in northern New Jersey, nearly as many offer an unfavorable assessment of Christie as a favorable one.

Christie’s explanation of his role in the highway lane closure is drawing skepticism. Most of those who have heard about the controversy do not believe Christie’s assertion that he was not aware of his aides’ involvement in the lane closure.

http://www.people-press.org/2014/01/20/christies-image-turns-more-negative/
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