Despite being a YouTube sensation and garnering an increasing amount of attention from national media outlets, New Jersey governor Chris Christie remains unknown to large swaths of the public and the Republican electorate, according to a new Fox News poll. The poll shows that 37 percent of registered voters–and 33 percent of Republican voters–have “never heard of” Christie. Another 12 percent of all voters don’t know if he’d be a good president.
And yet, when pollsters give Republican voters the option to choose him as their presidential candidate, Christie grabs about 9% of the vote, according to RealClearPolitics. Considering that Christie has consistently insisted that he’s not running for president because he’s not ready to be president–and one-third of Republicans don’t know who he is–pulling down 9% of the GOP vote is rather impressive.
