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Quinnipiac says Christie got no bounce from keynote address….but they started polling before he delivered the speech!

A Quinnipiac poll released this morning indicates that Governor Christie’s approval numbers remain strong among New Jersey voters…53% approve of his performance compared to 42% that do not….and that Christie would have been reelected if Newark Mayor Cory Booker was his Democratic opponent and the gubernatorial election was held last week when the poll was taken.

That’s good news for Christie, the NJ GOP and New Jersey taxpayers. Yet, in their write up of the poll, Quinnipiac did their best to spin the poll as a negative for Christie and the lazy main stream media is so far following that lead.

While 58 percent of New Jersey voters watched Gov. Christopher Christie’ keynote speech at the Republican National Convention, only 22 percent of voters say it makes them think more favorably of the governor, whose 53 – 42 percent job approval rating is barely changed, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

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“If Gov. Christopher Christie’s speech marked the opening of a 2016 presidential campaign he might want to try again.  People who like the governor liked the speech; those who don’t didn’t.  The net result – zero,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

Quinnipiac surveyed 1560 registered voters from August 27-September 2.  Christie delivered the keynote address at the Republican National Convention late in the evening on August 28.   The Bobcats pollsters didn’t start asking about Christie’s speech until the third day of the seven day poll.

While showing their own biases, the Bobcats purported to measure New Jersey voters’ prejudices regarding offices seekers’ gender, race, creed, sexual orientation and waste line.

The numbers say that New Jersey is accepting of most.  In the poll that has a margin of error of +/- 2.5%,  3% said they would be less inclined to vote for a female candidate while 10% would be more likely to vote for a female. 4% said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who was African-American and 1% would be less likely to do so. 11% would be less likely to vote for a homosexual and 1% would be more likely.

Atheists and Muslims did not fare as well.  39% would be less likely to vote for an atheist, 1% would be more likely.

15% said they would be less likely to vote for an obese candidate, 1% would be more likely to vote for the big boned.

Does this mean that we should adjust Governor Chirstie’s numbers?  Would his numbers be 14% higher if he was svelte?  No, it doesn’t mean that.  It means that this poll is seriously flawed.  It reveals more about the pollsters than it does about those being surveyed.

Posted: September 5th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: 2013 Gubernatorial Politics, Quinnipiac poll, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | 4 Comments »