"It's very hard to distance yourself from someone who has been attached at the hip for so long," said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. "If you had a governor that had a credible job performance even though he was personally unpopular, you might survive the fallout. But in Christie's case, it's a double whammy."
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David Paleologos, who runs the Suffolk University Poll, which didn't survey in Virginia, said missing voters is a problem but not a major one.
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