Christie Wildly Unpopular

If you read George Will's slobbering column on Chris Christie vs. the NJEA yesterday, you'd be under the impression that Chris Christie is beloved by nearly all in New Jersey for taking on the teachers union, slashing state aid to school districts and forcing thousands of teacher layoffs across the state.

Yeah, that would be the impression that you would get from Will's piece, but it would be wrong:

NEW JERSEY (WABC) -- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been in office for just three months, and a new eyewitness news poll shows voters are not giving him any kind of a honeymoon as he presses for budget cuts.

Only 33% of New Jersey residents approve the job Christie is doing as governor.

Nearly twice the number, 63% disapprove.

The telephone poll by SurveyUSA has a margin of error of plus or minus 4%.

33% approval is below the Bush line though not quite at the Paterson line.

Nonetheless, Christie is wildly unpopular in this state for refusing to cut taxes on millionaires while cutting the budgets on everybody else - including canceling the property tax rebate many people across the state get.

He's got more than 3 years to get that approval up, but given his glee at screwing powerful constituencies like the teachers union, his willingness to screw middle and working class homeowners so that his millionaire and billionaire buddies can avoid paying their fair share of taxes and his overall losing personality (he really does just seem like an asshole and a blowhard), I think Chris Christie has "one term" written all over him.

But we'll see - lots of stuff can happen in three years.