Chris Christie Enjoys Bump In Approval Ratings, Obama Slips
NEW JERSEY (CBS) - A survey of New Jersey voters finds the governor improving but the president stumbling.
Chris Christie's approval rating is back in positive territory, "47% to 46% in the new Quinnipiac University poll."
The school's polling institute director Maurice Carroll says it's more than a reversal of fortunes over last month's numbers, "This is a period where governors are not doing well -- every place else, the governors are down in the soup."
Other CEOs aren't immune from taking a bath in the broth -- President Obama, for example, "52% to 44% of people disapprove of him; it's the lowest the president has ever had in a Quinnipac poll."
Blame the debt ceiling debate for the bruising that's affected congress as much as the White House, Caroll says. But if the president is looking for a silver lining, the poll finds he wins a second term when matched against a Republican to be named later.
Reported by Ian Bush, KYW Newsradio 1060
