Will you stick to that *after *you find out something more about him than his name?
Or you could just tell us why. If it’s because “he’s the most like a sane Democrat”, that will do fine. Just remember, that’s why you used to support Christie and Jindal.
Kasich is this year’s Jon Huntsmann- a fairly conservative guy who enjoys mocking conservatives far too much to win any of their votes. It’s NOT a coincidence that so many of Huntsmann’s right-hand people are working for Kasich.
“Vote for me because I’m not an idiot like everybody else in the GOP” is not likely to be a successful slogan. Kasich will be liberal journalists’ favorite candidate… which will only persuade most Republicans that he’s not to be trusted.
Kasich has a long history. I supported Christie and Jindal, and still like them. But Kasich is my endorsement. I know enough about him to know he’d make a fantastic President.
What happened to Christie and Jindal that won’t happen with Kasich?
And who will be next down your list when it does?
Could you tell us the top three?
First-round elimination, I should think.
Christie had a scandal, Jindal’s record in Louisiana had deterioriated and I didn’t know about it.
Kasich, by contrast, has the highest approval ratings in Ohio since he took office, plus a long Congressional career. He’s like John McCain in that I’ve known him and followed him a long time, whereas Christie and Jindal are relatively young candidates with less time in the spotlight.
Kasich wins the Charles Barkley endorsement:
Can someone please explain to me why Kasich is being considered a top contender? This morning, I was surprised to read this in a FiveThirtyEight piece on Trump: “His main competitors (Bush, Walker, John Kasich and Marco Rubio) have been pretty hesitant to ding Trump (at least on Twitter).”
I was further surprised to see that on predictit.org, Kasich is, indeed, right behind Bush, Trump, Walker, and Rubio. But when you look at actual polls, Kasich is in 8th place with only 5 percent.
Is there a reason why he’s being singled out as a more credible contender than other nominees?
Resume, home state popularity, broadly acceptable to the party. Has some fans in the Tea Party, the mainstream, K street, and the religious right.
The polls right now show outsiders dominating and Jeb looking particularly weak. So if we assume that the nominee won’t be the outsiders, and won’t be Jeb, that leaves Rubio and Kasich as the primary contenders who are broadly acceptable.
He hasn’t been scrutinized yet, mainly. And he hasn’t, so far, joined the scramble to out-hate Trump.
Not scrutinized? I think that Kasich has been in public life long enough that there’s not much to scrutinize that hasn’t already been. He’s probably the most experienced candidate in either party.
By the national media, the ones covering national elections and shaping *national *opinions, of course. The lack of national reporting on Kasich only reflects the lack of voter interest in him. If that changes, so will the reporting. And then the Adaher Effect will guarantee he goes the way of Christie and Jindal.
I can’t find the link but around the time of the first debate he was already in the top half of the field for fundraising and endorsements. Since then there’ve been claims by his super PAC that some of Bush’s donors have come sniffing around. He’s also continued to pick up endorsements including a recent one from the Governor of Alabama. At this point of the campaign fund raising and endorsements are probably a better measure than nationwide polls. That’s especially true when you don’t have much in the way of nationwide name recognition, most of the country isn’t paying attention, and there’s such a big field to get lost in.
Running strong in NH with the attention that would get him before most of the country votes doesn’t hurt either.
John Kasich is a racist and general waste of oxygen.
Short version:
The 1996 welfare reforms, which Kasich helped write, instituted a 3-month limit on how long in any 3-year period healthy, childless adults could get food stamps, unless they were employed or in a training program for at least 20 hours a week. But the 1996 laws allowed states to seek waivers to this time limit for areas with especially high unemployment.
Ohio has been eligible for a statewide waiver every year since 2007. But for 2014 and 2015, Kasich only asked for waivers for 16 and 17 counties, respectively, out of Ohio’s 88 counties. Most of these were rural counties with small and predominantly white populations. Urban counties and cities, most of which had high minority populations, did not get waivers. And Kasich’s people rammed this policy through for 2014 before anyone had any chance to object.
And, funny thing, across the 16 counties the state had selected for waivers, about 94 percent of food stamp recipients were white.
So just like all other Republicans, really, the problem for Kasich isn’t big government, but rather making sure that Federal boodle goes to all the Right People and none of the Wrong People.
That’s the GOP’s ‘moderate’ candidate. Wears a suit, not a sheet, while engaging in separate-but-unequal policies.
What a worthless excuse for a human being.
I don’t know the counties, but as a guess they are among the Appalachian counties. There are lots of different rules and supports in Ohio for the Appalachian counties.
Yes. In some states, the only places with persistently high unemployment are white rural areas.
I still don’t think he should have asked for waivers. Those ignorant hicks need to move where the jobs are(as well as adult literacy classes). I’ve got a cousin living in an area of Kentucky where she’ll never find work and she refuse to move, just stays on welfare. I bet she’d move if a cutoff was threatened.
As it says at the link, that was not the case in Ohio. If they’d just picked the 16 counties with the highest unemployment rates, they would have included some counties with high minority populations, along with the rural counties.
Well, the cutoff happened back in 1996, when AFDC was replaced by TANF. So tell us more about your cousin and exactly what aid she gets.