Does anyone making predictions for this absurd scenario want to clarify under what plausible sequence of events the GOP nominates the single most loathed candidate among Republican primary voters and elite party actors alike?
Take issue with my description if you like although an unsourced polling snapshot from the end of the campaign is hardly much to go on.
This NPR article provides enough of an overview of Kasich's polling at the height of the campaigns for you to see what I mean.
In any case, he was never a plausible nominee. It would be like John Hickenlooper holding on and consolidating 10-20% of Democrats by virtue of being the sole "moderate" option in a tightly contested Harris-Sanders race or something.
