Sweeney Unhinged

Senate President says Christie prayed for Hurricane Sandy to strike.  FDU poll indicates New Jersey voters don’t think much of Sweeney.

Senate President Steve Sweeney said at a press conference today that Governor Chris Christie “prayed a lot and got lucky” that Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey, thereby enabling the governor to gloss over the problems that were facing the state prior to the storm, according to a report on NJ.com.

“His jobs package is a hurricane,” said Sweeny,”I guess he prayed a lot and got lucky that a storm came.”

Sweeney, along with Senators Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen) and Nina Gill (D-Essex) were speaking to the press prior to the Christie’s State of the State address which will be delivered tomorrow.   Sweeney immediately apologised for the “prayed a lot and got lucky” line, but went on to say that he expected the Governor to “try to convince everyone the sun is shining when it’s raining,” when he addresses the legislature tomorrow.

Evidently, most of New Jersey voters think the sun is shining and Sweeney is all wet.

In an FDU Public Mind Poll released today, 61% of New Jersey voters, including 55% of Democrats and 56% of Independents think the state is heading in the right direction. 26% think the state is on the wrong track and 13% are unsure.

Of the 700 voters surveyed, 73% approve of the job that Christie is doing.

FDU polled hypothetical match ups for the coming gubernatorial race between Christie, former Acting Governor Dick Codey, Senator Barbara Buono and Sweeney.

Codey, the best known of the Democrats scored best, losing to Christie 59%-26%.  55% of those surveyed were familiar with Codey, who served out Jim McGreevey’s term as governor from November 2004 until Jon Corzine took office in January of 2006. Of those who know of Codey, 56% think favorably about him while 18% have an unfavorable impression.

44% have heard of Sweeney, but of those only 25% like him.  39% of those who have heard of Sweeney think unfavorably about him.

The poll is so bad for Sweeney that Barbara Buono beat him.  Only 28% of the voters polled are familiar with Buono, yet she scored better against Christie than Sweeney did.  Christie beat Buono 64%-21% with 15% undecided.  Sweeney coundn’t break 20%, losing to the Governor by an embarrassing 65%-19% with 16% unsure.

Posted: January 7th, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2013 Gubernatorial Politics, Chris Christie, Hurricane Sandy, Stephen Sweeney | Tags: Chris Christie, Hurricane Sandy, Steve Sweeney | 3 Comments »

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