His impressive reelection win though won’t impact a presidential race, even in OH, in my opinion. Except for Romney and Dewey in 1944, haven’t all the GOp candidates won their home states? Even Ford took MI in 1976.
Like I said before. I am not going to speculate right now whether or not Kasich will toss his hat into the ring. Way too early for that-—although I have heard rumors that Ohio Sen. Rob Portman is also seriously considering running which would almost certainly complicate a theoretical Kasich presidential bid.
As a native Ohioan very familiar with that state’s politics, I was stunned and amazed at the sheer depth of Kasich’s victory there last week carrying all of the states heavily urbanized counties.
We Republicans have been told for years we cannot compete in urban areas. This is really my main point.