Shocking Poll Result: John Kasich Is in Second Place in New Hampshire

[onehandle]

Source: AP

Billionaire businessman Donald Trump is maintaining his lead in the Republican presidential race as he and the other candidates approach Tuesday's primary in New Hampshire. Trump currently holds 30% of GOP voters' favorability in the state, according to the latest Monmouth University poll released yesterday.

However, the Monmouth survey revealed some surprising results: Ohio Gov. John Kasich is in second place in New Hampshire with 14% favorability.

No one saw that coming.

Read more: http://moneymorning.com/2016/02/08/shocking-poll-result-john-kasich-is-in-second-place-in-new-hampshire/

[TexasBushwhacker]

1. Even more shocking, Bush is tied with Cruz for 3rd n/t

[restorefreedom]

29. that bothers me

he will keep fighting now and the establishment hacks will continue to prop him up.

[Liberty Belle]

2. I'm not surprised.

They barely let him talk in the early debates. Once a few candidates dropped out, he came across as saner than most of the others. If you're a fiscal conservative but not loony-tunes, he'd be your choice over Trump, Kruz, another Bush or the corrupt Christie. Rubio lucked out in Iowa but after his disastrous broken-record showing in the NH debate, he tanked.

[questionseverything]

6. me either

i was telling my spouse last night he was the one to watch

for the same reason, compared to the others he doesn't seem as crazy

but make no mistake, he is a "boot straps" kind of guy

[Wibly]

12. Kaisch

Is the only one on the GOP side that sounds even remotely sane to me.
I find Trump, Cruz and Rubio equally revolting and bizarre.
They are so far gone that sometimes I think Bush and the Jersey governor sound halfway reasonable. Then I come to my senses.
As for Carson, I've yet to be able to stay awake through the completion of any of his sentences, so I have no idea if he even knows where he is.

[trillion]

19. But as we found out today, he was a bankster at Lehman Brothers

He just looks sane. Like Hillary does. Both are .01 percenters. And so is Jeb. Do you know his biggest super pac is the AIG?

[mpcamb]

20. Hell of a reson to vote for a guy:

"he came across as saner than most of the others."

But then again, it's a Republican primary...

[rurallib]

3. Kasich scares me - he sounds sane

[Hissyspit]

7. He's just a different kind of extremist.

[rurallib]

10. the different kind that sucks voters in with looking moderate.

[neverforget]

17. Exactly that.

Nuts, but comes across as not insane

[erlewyne]

8. I expected Kasich to be #1 before this

I expect him to win. I hope not.
But he has been sane.

He is anti-union, worked for Wall Street, and is
GOP to the core.

This is the moment he has been waiting for.

[navarth]

11. yup, he's dangerous

[Wibly]

13. Kaisch wins

If the GOP picks Kaisch, the Dems pick Hillary, and both Trump and Sanders go rogue.

[navarth]

15. Well I guess so, but

I don't see those eventualities as being very likely. At the very least we know that Bernie won't go rogue. Not gonna happen. As for the rest...who can say? But Kasich is dangerous because he sounds sane.

[7962]

16. Kasich doesnt have much cash to run on though nt

[Skittles]

27. he hides it well

but he is a conservative asshole

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

4. Not shocked

Rubio was so awful the other night he really hurt himself.

I think NH common sense Repubs got together to protest the other loonies posing as "moderate and mainstream".

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Too bad NH common sense Republicans couldn't overcome the proto-Nazi with the atrocious comb over

That would have bee nice, but perhaps asking too much of Republicans nowadays, even in New Hampshire.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

14. "Common sense" Repubs are now what the John Birchers were during the Eisenhower/Nixon days n/m

[trillion]

24. They're still calling him robot rubio

[Dustlawyer]

35. Rubio was a guy the Oligarchs picked because he was Hispanic and totally malleable.

Their problem is that he is totally malleable because he cannot think for himself. Kind of like Emilio Estivez in the Breackfast Club, except a lot less empathetic and lacking a moral compass.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

37. They've been hedging their bets because Bush is unelectable

But Rubio is showing how not ready he is for this.

[Dustlawyer]

38. Rubio had his "Ooops" moment! His lost voters went to Kasich.

[Botany]

9. I kind of know John K and he is the one to fear

Funding member of ALEC, smooth in person, and loved by Fox News.

[Glamrock]

18. Not for looooongg.

Trump and the rest are going to be fucking with him tomorrow big time!

[Odin2005]

21. The GOPers found their Establishment yes-man.

[yourout]

28. +1...you can bet the republican leadership will...

Be doing everything they can behind the scene to help him.

[houston16revival]

22. SC is CRUZ Territory

Rubio will do better there too

[jalan48]

23. And so it begins..

How does Kasich poll against Sanders? Watch him rise to the top if it looks like he has the best chance of winning. As it it now, Sanders beats Trump in the general election.

[pnwmom]

25. Kaisich is a hardcore, nasty right-winger but comes across as a kindly Grandpa type.

He would be a serious threat in the general.

[ericson00]

26. I'm watching his speech...did he dye his hair?

[Enthusiast]

30. Kasich is the only viable Republican candidate.

But he is just as bad as the rest.

[Nye Bevan]

41. Not really.

He supports expanded medicaid and universal health coverage. He also opposes deporting millions of illegal immigrants. He is far too sane to win the Republican nomination.

[jen63]

42. Yes,

he is as bad as the rest. He only accepted expanded Medicaid to save his right wing loony ass after it was handed to him with Issue 2. He's over seen the complete gutting of women's health care and is process of defunding PP as we speak. He's only hiding his insanity better than the rest. He's dangerous.

[Enthusiast]

45. That's the way I see Kasich too. He's a stealth loon.

[jen63]

47. Exactly!

He's dangerous.

[PatrynXX]

31. John I like a little bit. he's not as liberal (for conservatives) as Trump

but there's a few things I like about him. He's generally nice. Thats his main value.

[Blue State Bandit]

32. Gota say, I liked his speech.

Maybe secretary of "Republicans off the PAC"?

[iandhr]

33. Katich is the only Republican that doesn't make my skin crawl.

Though I obviously disagree with him on the issues.

[Liberty Belle]

34. Mother Jones on Kasich positions: he is extreme on abortion:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/wolf-sheeps-clothing-gov-kasichs-reproductive-rights-record

How Ohio Governor John Kasich is making life hell for women seeking abortions (Mother Jones)

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, the latest Republican to step into the presidential fray, has widely been labeled the moderate in a GOP field that tilts sharply to the right. Climate change? It's real. Common Core educational standards? He'll take it. Medicaid expansion? Sure. Immigration reform? He's open to the possibilities. But his celebrated moderation disappears when it comes to reproductive rights. The religious former congressman and two-term governor is a hardliner on abortion: As governor he's signed and supported some of the most stringent anti-abortion legislation in the country.

(Note, I've read elsewhere that he is extreme on labor issues too. "Sane" by GOP standard these days is a moving target.)

[jen63]

43. Yep,

he tried the Walker thing here and had his ass handed to him with Issue 2. The union organized really well and a semi had to be rented to deliver the petitions to his office. They had an engineer come in to make sure the floor was capable of holding the weight of all of the petitions. He started sounding more "sane" after that, but is in the process of defunding PP as we speak. Dangerous.

[IronLionZion]

36. The next few states look good for Cruz

So I pray that Trump goes bankrupt trying to win and the GOP superpacs also go all in on Kasich since Jeb and Marco failed them. Donating to republicans should be a historically bad investment and should tear their party apart.

[TygrBright]

39. Hardly a surprise. He's playing possum.

Wait for all the others to self-destruct and/or fall to the circular firing squad, then be declared the front-runner with a modest smile, hopefully too late for all his skellingtons to be exhumed from their various closets.

Not a bad strategy.

Were I doing the betting thing, I'd take a flyer on him to be on the ballot in November.

speculatively,
Bright

[NEOBuckeye]

40. Kasich isn't what you think he is

You don't know him like we do here in Ohio. Just Google "SB5" and see for yourself. He's anti-union to the core, and vehemently anti-abortion.

He's also got a scandal brewing here over fixing the grades of poor performing and privately managed charter schools to prop them up over public schools.

He is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Don't be fooled.

[jen63]

44. Buckeye also,

I can't believe people would believe what he says without doing a little research. He's a republican ffs. He's using a sneaky strategy that just may work to get him on the ballot. He would destroy this country.

[DownriverDem]

46. Kasich would be awful for the Dems

Why? Kasich comes across as more moderate and sane, but he still supports the same old same old repub crap. Uninformed voters would not realize who he really is.

[On the Road]

48. So Many Nut Cases Running

There are a few Republicans who would rather vote for a boring but sensible governor from Ohio rather than a social warrior of some kind.