John Kasich is a proven leader

Former Republican Sen. John Sununu, who served with Kasich in the House in the 1990s, said that the governor’s pitch should seem familiar to many New Hampshire voters.

Jeb Bush unleashed a fury of criticism against Donald Trump on Saturday before imploring New Hampshire voters to forgo the billionaire businessman in the state’s February 9 primary.

The reason Kasich is doing well there is his liberal campaign, says Tom Zawistowski of the Portage County Tea Party.

In 2004, Wesley Clark had New Hampshire to himself, and his polling surged.

John Feehery, a Republican lobbyist, also thought Kasich stood a strong chance of winning the Republican nomination.

If New Hampshire Republicans are honest in their desire to regain control of the White House, they can not vote for divisive candidates such as Donald Trump or Ted Cruz. But that strategy is an illusion, the tea party leader claims.

But Kasich stayed true to his reputation as a moderate, decrying “extreme” plans put forward by other GOP candidates to fix the nation’s ills.

In 2010, when he became Ohio’s 69th governor by just two percentage points, then Governor-elect John Kasich warned his enemies and detractors that he would run the bus over them if they didn’t heave-to for him. Rand Paul at 6% in a CNN/WMUR poll released this week of Republican primary voters.

Kasich has staked his bid for the presidency on the New Hampshire voters, 44 percent of whom are neither Republicans nor Democrats.

Kasich said he would bring a needed change to the government in Washington.

Christie recently lowered expectations for his own performance in New Hampshire when he declared “I want to be the number one governor coming out of New Hampshire”. “His chief executive experience and the confidence that inspires is probably a little bit more like a Mitt Romney”.

The report stated that the OH general fund budget grew 13.6 percent in 2014 and that Kasich “pushed to expand Medicaid” and vetoed a bill passed by OH lawmakers that would have prohibited him from expanding Medicaid unilaterally. Rubio offered only veiled attacks against Cruz and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over taxes.

Christie has set the bar he needs to cross to get a ticket out of New Hampshire fairly low- all he beat Kasich and Bush. I think these outside candidates are appealing now, but they will have their pitfalls. “(Or) when you say that a prisoner of war is a loser because they got caught”. Of course, the question is how much traction Kasich’s actually getting in the Granite State and New Hampshire will either make him or break him.

As the GOP field has come to resemble an circular firing squad, Kasich has stepped outside the circle, refraining from directly attacking his rivals.

With about 1.3 million people in the state, they’re inundated with presidential politics, he said.