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Originally Posted by N-E-B
Kasich would have mopped the floor with Hillary. Unfortunately for him he was too sane and rational of a human being for the GOP.
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There would have been no mopping the floor by anyone. American elections are all about activating the political base and getting your voters to the polls. Just like Republicans refuse to turn their back on a nut bar like Trump Democrats wouldn't turn their back on Clinton. The primaries are all about deciding who is going to excite the base and drive them to the polls. Kasich, as nice a guy as he is, is boring as hell and wouldn't have sold well to get the base excited. Remove the wackiness from the Trump campaign and you likely have a boring election cycle where the policy package is what is going to drive the activation of voters. Frankly, Kasich and the Republican platform is weak in this regard. Facing the spectre of running against the first female presidential candidate the Republicans needed a loose cannon to say stupid #### that would excite people. Unfortunately, they didn't expect Trump to be so uncontrollable. But give Trump credit, he activated the hell out of the base. The downside is he also scared of the moderate Republicans and forced them over to vote for the "other" candidates.