Poll: Obama would bury Christie

Maybe he's not the one the GOP has been waiting for, per Fairleigh Dickinson University:

Visits to or from Iowa notwithstanding, New Jersey’s Gov. Chris Christie does not

stack up as well against President Barack Obama now as he did just a few months

ago. In a head-to-head match-up against Obama, Christie trails 34%-50%, a

backslide from 40%-46% measured in March, according to a new national poll of

registered voters by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind.


The poll is a reminder that for all the elite enthusiasm for Christie, there's relatively little hard data to back up GOP hopes that he'd be a war-horse challenger for Obama. Romney fares the best in the Republican field against Obama, trailing by 6 percentage points. Everyone else is behind by substantial double-digit margins.

The survey also confirms a trend that other New Jersey surveys have shown: Christie's in-state approval rating has slipped, from 51 percent positive, 41 percent negative, to an even split at 44 percent.