New Hampshire Primary

Trump and Sanders win. That’s what the media will focus on, and that’s okay.

What worries me is that the media will then start claiming Governor Kasich is the new “Establishment” front runner and the uninformed hordes will fall for him.

Kasich is no moderate. He’s an anti-access abortion opponent:

the Ohio governor is anything but moderate, signing a slew of restrictive laws that have closed nearly half his state’s clinics.

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Laws signed by Kasich prohibit almost all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, mandate ultrasounds before a woman can get an abortion and require abortion clinics to establish formal written agreements with local hospitals about emergency care — a provision that has been repeatedly modified to be even more restrictive and make it harder for clinics to comply.

He’s an anti-union man who in his first year in office lobbied for and signed legislation which

would have impacted the state’s 400,000 public workers, restricting their ability to strike and collectively bargain. The bill would have limited public employees to collectively bargain for wages, preventing them from collectively bargaining for health insurance and pensions. It would also have prohibited all public employees from striking and could have increased employee contributions for pensions and healthcare.

Ohio voters overturned that legislation in the following election and he hasn’t returned to it, but in May of 2015 he overturned executive orders signed by the previous Governor which gave union rights to home health care workers who do business with the state of Ohio. His reasoning: the Affordable Care Act gives them “more opportunities to obtain health insurance.”

No, Governor Kasich is no moderate. He’s just the least nasty of the remaining crowd of Republicans trying to get the party’s nomination to the Presidency.