However, that's the lowest positive rating the Monmouth University Poll has found in 30 years of asking the question.
Pollster Patrick Murray says a decade-long slide of confidence in government is the chief reason residents have soured on their state.
One-in-four respondents rate state government as good or excellent. Some 44 percent say they don't have much confidence in Trenton.
Murray says the result would be more worrisome in an election year if more legislative districts were toss-ups. Most races favor one party over the other.
The poll of 2,864 residents was conducted Dec. 1-15, 2010 and has a sampling error of plus or minus 2 points.
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