TRENTON — A new poll shows President Obama leading his re-election race against all Republican challengers including New Gov. Chris Christie, who insists he isn't going to run. The Fairleigh Dickinson-PublicMind national poll released today finds the Jersey guy governor pulling in 34 percent of the vote, compared to 50 percent for the president in a head-to-head matchup. That's...
President Obama (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT) would handily defeat Gov. Chris Christie (Robert Sciarrino/The Star-Ledger) in a presidential race, a national poll found.TRENTON — A new poll shows President Obama leading his re-election race against all Republican challengers including New Gov. Chris Christie, who insists he isn't going to run.
The Fairleigh Dickinson-PublicMind national poll released today finds the Jersey guy governor pulling in 34 percent of the vote, compared to 50 percent for the president in a head-to-head matchup. That's a back slide from March, when Christie trailed 40 percent to 46 percent.
The poll finds that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney stacks up best among the potential GOP field. But he, too, trails Obama, 39 percent to 45 percent.
The telephone poll of 826 registered voters nationwide was conducted June 1 through 7 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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