New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks at the Republican Governors Association's quarterly meeting at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on May 21, 2014. UPI/John Angelillo | License Photo

NEWARK, N.J., Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Most voters in New Jersey agree with Gov. Chris Christie's decision to quarantine a nurse from Maine who had recently traveled to West Africa.

Christie, along with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in October implemented a quarantine policy under which any traveler who had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa would be placed in quarantine for 21 days.


That policy was relaxed later in the month, allowing health care workers to be quarantined at home rather than a government-regulated facility.

This move came after a nurse who worked with Ebola patients in West Africa, Kaci Hickox, said she was made to feel like a criminal when she was quarantined at New Jersey's University Hospital.

Voters in a poll by Monmouth University mostly said they agree with Christie's decision to have Hickox quarantined.

Fifty-three of respondents said they approve of the way Christie has handled the Ebola virus issue, with 27 percent disapproving.

"Gov. Christie has made a good read of how uneasy the public is with the seemingly uncertain response from the feds. The Ebola issue has offered him an opportunity to take on the mantle of leadership," said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.

While they approve of their governor's handling of Ebola, New Jersey voters don't have as favorable an opinion of the federal government. Thirty-seven percent approve of the way the federal government handled the situation and 46 percent disapprove.