"With Democratic and Republican voters deadlocked, the outcome of these elections rests with the least connected voters," said Suffolk poll director David Paleologos in a statement.
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"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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