By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
This is undoubtedly the winter of Chris Christie’s discontent, Save Jerseyans.
Dixie fails to present as an exception.
He registered only 2.8% last weekend in the CPAC straw poll, behind the likes of Donald Trump and Rick Santorum; more concerning, the latest poll out of North Carolina (a critical Election 2016 general election battleground) finds the Governor of New Jersey barely scratching the surface early-spring cycle voters:
This has almost ceased to be news worthy but North Carolina another state where Christie is under water with GOP primary voters- 30/44
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) March 2, 2015
A January Townhall/Gravis poll found Christie in 8th place down in South Carolina.
The theme of PPP’s results are consistent with other organizations’ findings from other states:
Our last three public polls- NC, national, and SC- have all had the same 4 Republicans in double digits- Walker, Bush, Carson, Huckabee
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) March 2, 2015
At this point? Gov. Christie probably needs to post stellar debate performances AND have Scott Walker and Jeb Bush both stub their toes (badly) to work his way back into serious contention. Anything is possible. Almost anything. For now, watch for clues of the Christie effort’s health at an upcoming March finance committee breakfast.
He’ll play contender for as long as possible to duck issues at home. In the mean time, this is a bogus Assembly election year.
DOA
whatever allies he had left he is losing fast across this state because of Common Core. He refuses to listen to the many parents, teachers and educators that were his base. And he sends Hespe out to discredit them to their face and through the media in every outlet, while he talks out of both sides of his face. People are fuming.