His popularity is still off the charts, particularly for a Republican Governor in New Jersey and a comfortable majority of Garden State voters think Chris Christie deserves to be re-elected.
With about seven months to go before New Jersey's Gubernatorial election, all the recent polls show incumbent Governor Chris Christie with a huge lead over his presumptive Democratic challenger, State Senator Barbara Buono.
Democrats in New Jersey control the State Senate by a margin of 24-16, but one political expert says the natural disaster was a game-changer, and now anything is possible this November.