(It's) a story that Democrats stoked for better than a year and that drove the Gov's poll numbers down, down, down. Maurice Carroll More Quotes by Maurice Carroll More Quotes From Maurice Carroll Shades of Woodrow Wilson. The last Jersey guy who got elected president did not carry the state in his 1916 reelection, and this poll shows we haven't changed in the last century. Maurice Carroll politics Since 'Bridgegate' broke, Christie’s numbers have been tepid at best, it’s hurt him. Bad headlines translate into bad polls. Maurice Carroll politics When you say 'Jersey Guy' some people think of a guy who likes to pick a fight, others say it’s someone who tells it like it is. Christie doesn’t take any crap. Maurice Carroll politics