{"id":14072,"date":"2016-04-13T02:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T02:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14072"},"modified":"2016-04-13T02:30:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T02:30:50","slug":"gov-kasich-faces-a-bitter-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14072","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Kasich faces a bitter irony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/kasich.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14015\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14015\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/kasich-300x200.png\" alt=\"kasich\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/kasich-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/kasich-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/kasich.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Kasich must feel like the unluckiest politician in America.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s caught in perhaps the most bitter irony in recent political history.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio governor is running for the Republican Party&#8217;s presidential nomination. He&#8217;s one of three men still standing in what began as a 17-candidate GOP primary free-for-all.<\/p>\n<p>Given that we&#8217;ve been talking &#8212; <em>a lot!<\/em> &#8212; about public opinion polling in this presidential campaign, it&#8217;s good to mention this: Kasich stands alone among the three men still running as the only candidate who can defeat probable Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton. Donald Trump loses big to Clinton; so does Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Why, then, does Gov. Kasich still struggle as the longest shot of all the GOP candidates who will become the party&#8217;s presidential nominee this summer?<\/p>\n<p>The Republican base has endorsed Trump and Cruz in all those primaries and caucuses. Kasich has\u00a0won exactly one contest: in Ohio, the state he governs. Hey, man, he had to win that one, right?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard pundit after pundit, voter after voter say the same thing: Gov. Kasich is the last grown-up in this race.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Cruz are despised by the Republican establishment for varying reasons. Trump lacks a governing philosophy; Cruz seems to have\u00a0virtually no friends in the U.S. Senate, where he has served since January 2013.<\/p>\n<p>It appears, though, that one of those two individuals is going to carry the GOP banner into the fall against Clinton. Those polls? They keep showing they&#8217;ll lose. Maybe by a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Kasich continues to poll far better vs. Clinton than either of them.<\/p>\n<p>He also continues to lag far behind in the Republican Party polls of primary voters.<\/p>\n<p>Poor guy. I feel sorry for Gov. Kasich.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kasich must feel like the unluckiest politician in America. He&#8217;s caught in perhaps the most bitter irony in recent political history. The Ohio governor is running for the Republican Party&#8217;s presidential nomination. He&#8217;s one of three men still standing in what began as a 17-candidate GOP primary free-for-all. Given that we&#8217;ve been talking &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gov. 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