How the hell is Christie approaching 8% (!) and Kasich isn't even in play? Don't really understand how/why Christie overtook him as the establishment third-string.
How the hell is Christie approaching 8% (!) and Kasich isn't even in play? Don't really understand how/why Christie overtook him as the establishment third-string.
The mainstream media has been pumping him up daily for the past month
I'll agree with yankeesfan and smilo, but also I'll say Kasich swamped New Hampshire early with ads, and that pumped his name up. But as soon as he started going there, it revealed the actual John Kasich to voters, and they have not liked John Kasich. Christie, on the other hand, is a classic retail politician. And you see that in the recent New Hampshire poll - his favorables are the highest in the field, his moving up rapidly, all while most voters are saying the New Hampshire Union Leader would make them LESS likely to vote for a candidate. All because he's talked to voters in this sort of intimate setting and they like him the more they see him. That's why Kasich's early momentum has fallen apart and Christie is rising.
