Posted on 01/20/2016 6:33:04 PM PST by cotton1706
CONTOOCOOK, N.H. - Voters at a VFW hall and a senior center peppered the candidate with questions about global warming, income inequality and raising the minimum wage. They pressed for plans to invest in renewable energy and save Social Security.
The presidential hopeful on the receiving end, however, was not Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders - it was Republican John Kasich, whose chances of advancing beyond New Hampshire's primary in 20 days likely hinge on winning over supporters who are more likely to vote for those two Democrats than for Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.
The two-term Republican governor of Ohio still boasts the lowest name ID nationally of any serious Republican presidential contender. But in the final weeks before voting begins, he is finding validation in his growing support in independent-heavy New Hampshire, with six polls this month showing him in second place behind Donald Trump. (However, a CNN/WMUR poll released Wednesday, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, had Kasich tied for fifth with several other candidates.)
As his rivals fine-tune their pitches to a conservative electorate enthralled by Trump's angry populism, Kasich continues to sell what pundits argue is out of style with this year's GOP primary voter: executive experience, moderation and unwavering optimism.
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I’m a Buckeye and I see a guy who fixed an 8 billion dollar budget deficit in one year without raising taxes and then he started lowering the income tax.
I understand policy differences but I don’t understand the hate. Ohio is in a much better place.
Have a family picture of my grandmother’s grandparents at 50th with kids (His grandfathers both signed Bradford accord and served in Revolutionary War) Next to grandmothers mother is her sister Julia Trump.
From the book THE TRUMPS I know they all came from the same area of Germany. Trumps ancestors are Noobies. Fredrich Trumpf his grandfather came as a young man. Died leaving a widow with three children. Fred her oldest (11) was Donald father. She sent him to trade school while still in high school where he learned plumbing ,electricity and other building trades. She survived by flipping houses. So in three generations it went from struggling widow to multibillionaire. The American Dream on Steroids
Because he’ll allow tens of millions of Latin Americans into this nation through chain immigration, what you see is not hate, it is contempt. Personally I think his lack of military service during wartime is also contemptible, especially as a first generation immigrant, but that’s just me.
How did I know, before I even looked, that this was a liberal Propagandico liberal fluff job of liberal John liberal Kasich’s liberalism?
Interesting stuff, indeed. I had no idea.
Compare and contrast that family history with ObaMao, who had everything handed to him and STILL grew up hating America.
Red THE TRUMPS by Gwenda Blair. Or Frmail if you are intwrwsted in my vetting of Trump. I can point you to shorter articles on his family history
SInce vetting O it became more important to vet all. I’ve tried. Because DT is such a public person there is a huge amount of material. His family is so patriitic and such hard workers Google John Trump who he brags about as from MIT. Lot more than just being a professor. He’s being modest
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