Jersey Shore disliked by majority of state residents

Jersey Shore is bad for the state - according to a new poll of New Jersey residents. Sixty seven percent of those polled think the MTV reality show about 8 20-and-30-somethings living at the shore is bad for the state and its image.  Even the majority of voters under 35 years old - Jersey Shore's main demographic - agreed the show is not good for New Jersey.

Almost three quarters of those polled believed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie 'did the right thing' when he vetoed the film tax credit approved for the producers of Jersey Shore.  “Garden State voters agree overwhelmingly with Gov. Christopher Christie’s decision to slam the door on Snooki, The Situation and the rest of the ‘Jersey Shore’ crew,” Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal.


Sixteen percent of those polled in the Quinnipiac University study, however, said they did not think Jersey Shore was bad for New Jersey. A full 20% had not heard of the MTV reality show.

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