Most New Jersey voters still approve of the job that Governor Chris Christie is doing, and he earns solid support for his handling of the state’s contentious budget situation. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely New Jersey Voters shows that 51% approve of how the new Republican governor is doing his job, while 45% disapprove. This includes 33% who Strongly Approve and 31% who Strongly Disapprove.
These findings mark little, if any, change from mid-April.
Forty-six percent (46%) of Garden State voters give Christie good or excellent marks for his handling of the budget crisis. Thirty-six percent (36%) rate his performance in this area as poor.
Christie has been battling the Democratic-controlled legislature and the state’s powerful public employee unions over his proposed $29.3 billion budget, which includes substantial spending cuts in several areas.
Eighty-two percent (82%) of Republicans and 60% of voters not affiliated with either major party approve of how Christie is doing as governor. Seventy-three percent (73%) of Democrats disapprove.
While 73% of voters in his own party and 53% of unaffiliateds rate his handling of the state budget as good or excellent, 61% of Democrats think he’s doing a poor job.
