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The Economist
Republican governors
A collection of new governors in battleground states are stirring things up

COLUMBUS, OHIO

“HERE’S a great quote,” says John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, reading from an article about the cuts he instigated to the state’s subsidies for nursing homes, “‘It took a real bastard to change things.’” Mr Kasich (pictured) is one of a new crop of Republican governors, including Chris Christie of New Jersey, Rick Scott of Florida and Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who seem to relish putting noses out of joint. Their obstreperousness is all the more remarkable given that they are all from swing states, or, in the case of Mr Christie, a resolutely Democratic one. Whether their tactics will help to cement the Republicans’ new-found advantage in those places or doom them to transience is a subject of heated debate.