Poll: Christie Would Lose Badly to Clinton in New Jersey

Half of New Jersey's voters don't want to see Christie run for president.

Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., on Thursday, March 6, 2014.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

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By John McCormick and Terrence Dopp

December 11, 2014 at 11:02 AM UTC

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A Jersey Guy in the White House? Fuggetaboutit. New Jersey voters say that America isn't ready for one of their own as the commander-in-chief, and would pick Hillary Clinton over their state's governor, Chris Christie, by a margin of 11 points, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released Thursday.

A slim majority in the survey say Christie wouldn't make a good president, while half of the state's voters don't think the U.S. is ready for a "Jersey Guy" in the White House. New York neighbor Clinton would, for now, beat all of the prospective Republican 2016 candidates in the state.