A deepening scandal over lane closures used to punish a New Jersey mayor who refused to endorse Gov. Chris Christie could damage the moderate Republican’s chances for a 2016 presidential run, the director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute tells NPR. Patrick Murray, in an interview on Weekend Edition Saturday, […] Read more »
Christie numbers tank as scandals continue
Chris Christie’s political future looks to be in serious danger with more Americans believing the embattled New Jersey governor is lying about the bridge closure scandal than telling the truth, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Christie’s overall standing has taken a major hit in the survey, […] Read more »
Obama 2014: Not your year (so far)
President Obama will deliver Tuesday’s State of the Union address facing deep skepticism from the American public about his leadership, according to a new NBC-News/Wall Street Journal poll. The survey shows a 51 percent majority of the public disapprove Obama’s job performance, compared to 43 percent who approve. Not only […] Read more »
How Christie Could Hurt the GOP in 2016
It’s far too early to say whether the controversies swirling around New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will prevent him from seriously competing for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. But Christie’s cascading difficulties underscore the shortage of good options for voters and donors in the party’s upscale managerial wing. It’s still […] Read more »
Broken at the Bridge, a Basic Law of Politics
Here are two reasons Gov. Chris Christie and his people are hiring top-shelf criminal defense lawyers. The first is that the Christie machine broke a basic law of politics, codified by a corrupt Philadelphia politician and passed along by Richard Aregood, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newsman: “Never do anything crooked or […] Read more »
Christie won’t be hurt
People in politics who should know better — or who may know better but pretend they don’t — act as if events like “Bridgegate” really affect votes. … There are several perfectly good explanations as to why these bad stories aren’t very influential in the end. For one thing, voters […] Read more »