What would things be like if Kasich was the Republican nominee?

[EliteLX]

A very popular and effective governor of a swing state with a beautiful family, clean slate, and reasonably moderate & sensible policy proposal vs a has-been scripted fbi-investigated 63% unfavorable sitting duck hopelessly-pandering ex-senator.

Things would be going pretty damn good. I've said it forever, Hillary lucked out hard with the GOP nominee.

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

A very popular and effective governor of a swing state with a beautiful family, clean slate, and reasonably moderate & sensible policy proposal vs a has-been scripted fbi-investigated 63% unfavorable sitting duck hopelessly-pandering ex-senator.

Things would be going pretty damn good. I've said it forever, Hillary lucked out hard with the GOP nominee.

I'm still not ruling out (in a semi-joking fashion) the idea that Trump's a plant. Remember that hour long phone call with Bill before he announced!

[moderatevoter]

Kasich would be the favorite.

[IceSpear]

He'd probably be ahead by a decent margin now. He'd be the favorite, but definitely not a lock.

[Badger]

I'm feeling better than they are now.

[Mr. Smith]

Like 1988 in reverse, Kasich would start off good but continuously blow his lead while Hillary and Co. dig up dirt and use it against him, and if Castro were to be Hillary's running mate, no doubt Kasich and Co. would try to pull some kind of reverse Dan Quayle...look how well that turned out.

[Ljube]

I'm feeling better than they are now.

Why isn't he the nominee, then?

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

I'm feeling better than they are now.

Why isn't he the nominee, then?

Because Republican primary voters are the equivalent of kamikaze pilots?  (Trump actually was my favorite candidate in the primaries, but when I saw the writing on the wall he couldn't win a general, I had to vote against him.)

[Dr. Arch]

I'd be Lean Kasich.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Kasich would be leading, it would be his presidential race to lose.

Unless Clinton managed to SOMEHOW bring up his time at Lehman without looking insanely hypocritical.

She got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to speak to elite investors. There's no way she'd bring that up.

You know our liberal media better then that , they will only attack Kasich never Clinton

[PeteB]

As I said in the primaries, the options were:

Kasich vs Clinton - toss up

or

Anybody else (and especially Trump) vs Clinton - Democratic landslide


I still stand by that, with the added caveat that with all the negative publicity Hillary is getting, Kasich would probably be safely ahead right now, although things would tighten up before the actual vote.

[IceSpear]

Kasich would be leading, it would be his presidential race to lose.

Unless Clinton managed to SOMEHOW bring up his time at Lehman without looking insanely hypocritical.

She got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to speak to elite investors. There's no way she'd bring that up.

You know our liberal media better then that , they will only attack Kasich never Clinton

LMFAO! Hillary got the most negative coverage of ANY candidate by far.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=239392.0

[HisGrace]

As I said in the primaries, the options were:

Kasich vs Clinton - toss up

or

Anybody else (and especially Trump) vs Clinton - Democratic landslide


I still stand by that, with the added caveat that with all the negative publicity Hillary is getting, Kasich would probably be safely ahead right now, although things would tighten up before the actual vote.

Rubio was doing about as well as Kasich vs Clinton, although he dropped out sooner so those polls were from earlier.

[Seriously?]

Kasich would have been whacked by now. They would have been ripping him to shreds over him being a director at Lehman Brothers during the financial meltdown in 2008.

The Democrats would have been happily defining their RINO of choice, just like they did with Romney in 2012 and Kasich would have no money to defend himself, just like the primaries.

[Seriously?]

I'm feeling better than they are now.

Why isn't he the nominee, then?

Because he won ONE state, his home state of OHIO.  I know I would be sick and tired of hearing about how he was the son of a mailman and most likely sitting out this election as well, like I did when RINO Romney was the nominee in 2012.

Kasich is no conservative.

His positions on Obamacare and immigration are no better than a Democrat, which is why so many of the red and faux-blue avatars on here love him.

[HisGrace]

I'm feeling better than they are now.

Why isn't he the nominee, then?

Because he won ONE state, his home state of OHIO.  I know I would be sick and tired of hearing about how he was the son of a mailman and most likely sitting out this election as well, like I did when RINO Romney was the nominee in 2012.

Kasich is no conservative.

His positions on Obamacare and immigration are no better than a Democrat, which is why so many of the red and faux-blue avatars on here love him.

As opposed to Trump, who is anti-trade, "loves debt", flip flopped on abortion, gun control, and single payer health care, and still says his health care plan is to "take care of everyone" (sounds like Medicare for all, which would be even worse than the ACA), is anti entitlement reform, likes the idea of a minimum wage hike, and wants to dissolve NATO and recognize North Korea and let them have South Korea (both of which would be dismissed as crackpot left-wing foreign policy ideas had anyone but Trump suggested them). Trump is the biggest RINO to ever head a GOP ticket. The GOP electorate didn't want a "real conservative" they wanted a belligerent populist/ignoramus. 

[OSR stands with Israel]

Kasich would be leading, it would be his presidential race to lose.

Unless Clinton managed to SOMEHOW bring up his time at Lehman without looking insanely hypocritical.

She got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to speak to elite investors. There's no way she'd bring that up.

You know our liberal media better then that , they will only attack Kasich never Clinton

LMFAO! Hillary got the most negative coverage of ANY candidate by far.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=239392.0

Not in the general election.

[Erc]

I'm feeling better than they are now.

Why isn't he the nominee, then?

Because he won ONE state, his home state of OHIO.  I know I would be sick and tired of hearing about how he was the son of a mailman and most likely sitting out this election as well, like I did when RINO Romney was the nominee in 2012.

Kasich is no conservative.

His positions on Obamacare and immigration are no better than a Democrat, which is why so many of the red and faux-blue avatars on here love him.

As opposed to Trump, who is anti-trade, "loves debt", flip flopped on abortion, gun control, and single payer health care, and still says his health care plan is to "take care of everyone" (sounds like Medicare for all, which would be even worse than the ACA), is anti entitlement reform, likes the idea of a minimum wage hike, and wants to dissolve NATO and recognize North Korea and let them have South Korea (both of which would be dismissed as crackpot left-wing foreign policy ideas had anyone but Trump suggested them). Trump is the biggest RINO to ever head a GOP ticket. The GOP electorate didn't want a "real conservative" they wanted a belligerent populist/ignoramus. 

Don't you know that "conservative" means "someone who cannot be seen to ever agree with President Obama on anything"?

[Simfan34]

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[Iowa+3]

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Damn. Someone more rightwing than me on econ.

[Simfan34]

Kasich would have been whacked by now. They would have been ripping him to shreds over him being a director at Lehman Brothers during the financial meltdown in 2008.

I'm not sure how effective this would be. The obvious retort that comes to mind is, "Oh geez, well Hillary's made a lot more money working with investment banks than I have!"

[Taco Truck 🚚]

Kasich would be leading, it would be his presidential race to lose.

Yeah the guy who came in a distant third in his own party's primary would be winning the general election.

[Simfan34]

Kasich would be leading, it would be his presidential race to lose.

Yeah the guy who came in a distant third in his own party's primary would be winning the general election.

I don't see reason for incredulity. This is an assertion supported by polls. The general election electorate is not the Republican primary electorate, which shouldn't be news to anyone.

[cinyc]

Kasich would be leading, it would be his presidential race to lose.

Yeah the guy who came in a distant third in his own party's primary would be winning the general election.

I don't see reason for incredulity. This is an assertion supported by polls. The general election electorate is not the Republican primary electorate, which shouldn't be news to anyone.

Kasich was never really attacked during the primaries.  He would be getting savagely attacked now by Clinton.  The polls don't take into account the effect these attacks would have had on Kasich.

I think Kasich would be slightly behind in the polls right now after getting attacked, probably down 1 or 2 points.

[ProudModerate2]

Due to the recent "statements" by FBI Director Comey, I think Hillary would be slightly down in the polls if Kasich was the candidate (at this time).

I voted "R+2 to R+5."