It looks like Ohio Gov. John Kasich is running for president

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The GOP 2016 primary field is getting mighty crowded. The Washington Post and New Hampshire's NH1 News report that Ohio Gov. John Kasich is launching a new super PAC, a very strong signal that he is going to get in the presidential race. And he'll have some serious establishment fire power in his camp:

The new group is called New Day for America, and one of the biggest political names in New Hampshire — former Sen. John E. Sununu — is serving as a director. [The Washington Post]

Sununu's father, John H. Sununu, served as George H.W. Bush's chief of staff and was a prominent surrogate for Mitt Romney in 2012.

As the two-term governor of a bellwether state, Kasich would appear to be a formidable candidate on paper. But he angered many in the Republican Party when he expanded Medicaid in Ohio under the auspices of ObamaCare.