Oh my: New poll of New Hampshire puts John Kasich at 20%, just seven points behind Trump

Hotair ^ | 01/19/2016 | AllahPundit

[GOPJ]

Did you know his father was a mailman?

[NYRepublican72]

Did you know that the mailman’s son balances budgets?

[SamAdams76]

Is it me, or is this the stupidest way to choose a candidate? I am sick of Iowa, I am sick of New Hampshire. Just get on with it.

No, it's not just you. I am also sick of Iowa and New Hampshire. Every four years I have to listen to months and months of corn farmers in Iowa and dairy farmers in New Hampshire prattle on and on over a cup of coffee at some no-name diner in some no-name town. I'm tired of presidential candidates in flannel shirts and boots trying to "get down" with the average Joe in flyover country - in August - with the primary season still half a year away.

I used to live in Massachusetts and we used to drive up to New Hampshire to see what presidential candidate we would run into at some Dairy Queen or roadside clam shack, reassuring some 80-year-old that they would fight for them to keep their social security. It was as predictable as seeing the foliage in fall.

The candidates spend nearly a year courting every possible voter personally in those two states, right down to petting the puppies and kittens. Then when Iowa and New Hampshire are over, they rush through the rest of the early states in a blur, and by the time the snow melts and before half the country even gets to have a say, the nominee is already pretty much a done deal.

Sorry Texas, sorry California. We know you are big states and all. But by the time the primaries come your way, the nominees have already been chosen. But hey, go ahead and vote in your primary anyhow. It will be fun.

[Jim Noble]

As I have said before, I expect Kasich to finish second in NH before fading.

[GOPJ]

I heard that somewhere...

[who knows what evil?]

Me too, Iowa is Iowa and NH is basically a failed state.

Red Hampshire = New York, Jr.

[who knows what evil?]

Whatever happened to the Free State Project?

Smoking weed and making a difference...

[Teacher317]

I was hoping to dismiss nutty NH with their wide-open system (ANYONE can get in the race for a thousand bucks today)... but looking back at the primaries, NH is actually a much better predictor of the winner than just about anyone. Since Goldwater ('64), NH's primary has picked the winner in every election except '96 (Buchanan over Dole), and '00 (McCain over Bush)... and nobody has won the GOP nomination without placing in the top 2 in NH since 1920 (Gen Leonard Wood over Sen Hiram Johnson).

[miss marmelstein]

I did know!

[Enlightened1]

I see the Establishment is now bailing on Cruz and pushing Kasich of all people.

Kasich is a joke. He polls 1% nationally.

Guys like Kasich is what is wrong with Washington and not the solution.

Trump will easily win New Hampshire.

[Dr. Sivana]

Whatever happened to the Free State Project?

Need more of those people to move.

They picked the wrong state. They can't keep up with the folks fleeing Massachusetts.

Wyoming would be a better choice. The potheads will stay in Colorado.

The project will be helpless until some state has the guts to say it will not take the federal money that is used to control them.