Corzine's Approval Ratings: As Bad As Bush

Via PolitickerNJ.com:

Gov. Jon Corzine’s has an upside-down approval rating of 37%-52%, down from 46%--43% in December, and 73% of voters oppose his plan to raise tolls, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released this morning. . . .

More than half of the New Jersey voters surveyed (51%) say that Corzine does not deserve to be re-elected next year, and just 32% says he should serve as second term. Voters split 35%-33% on their desire to vote for Corzine or an unnamed Republican.

Got that? Just to compare, the same Quinnipiac University conducted a poll in late October 2007 that showed President Bush's approval rating at 35% -- a statistically insignificant difference. And an end-of-January poll by NPR shows Bush's approval ratings at 38%. (Poll results can be seen at PollingReport.com.) And just this morning, Reuters reported that "Approval ratings for Bush climbed to 34 percent from 31 percent last month".

Governor Corzine, you're as bad as President Bush! You should be impeached! Corzine prevaricated, citizens evacuated! (Yeah, okay, doesn't work as well as "Bush lied, people died". Score one to the left in the mindless sloganeering department.)

Or perhaps you prefer to think that you're a visionary, and that others are too myopic to see the fact that you're doing the right thing. Of course, President Bush would say the same thing about the war in Iraq. Is that the kind of platform you want to build your legacy on?

Postscript: The Reuters report above also says, "positive ratings for Congress inched up from 14 percent to a still-low 17 percent." Yeesh.

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