A Wall Street Journal - NBC poll released today, shows Chris Christie's popularity drops in new nationwide poll. Only 17 percent of respondents view Governor Christie positively, while 32 percent expressed negative views.
Twenty-seven percent of the registered voters who responded were neutral on Christie, while 24 percent said they weren't sure. ... In January, the last time this poll was released, 22 percent saw the governor positively and 29 viewed him negatively.
What’s more, today's figure represent an about-face from the poll in October — before the scandal erupted — when 33 percent of respondents viewed Christie positively and 17 percent negativelty as he headed into his landslide re-election.
In addition, no group of respondents viewed Christie positively. Independents, by 28 percent to 12 percent, viewed him negatively; 29 percent of Republicans viewed him negatively against 23 percent who saw him positively. Northeasterners generally viewed the Republican governor negatively, 28 percent to 25 percent.
1,000 adults were surveyed nationwide between March 5-9. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
The daily barrage of allegations, bad news, and stonewalling is taking its toll. People are "beginning to suspect" something fishy is going on in New Jersey.