OK, going off
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19748091&posted=1#post19748091
Would you instead vote for Sanders, Kasich-
or still prefer Clinton or Trump?
Maybe we should start a Fantasy Elections forum.
Well, for 6 days?
I’d support Sanders and he’d almost certainly be doing better against either Trump or Kasich given that the real reason for Trump constantly running so close to Clinton has been not her policy positions but her perceived elitism and corruption while Kasich getting the nomination would almost certainly have triggered a third-party run by Trump or a more orthodox Tea Partier.
If I ordered them from most likely to do a good job as president to least, I’d probably go with something like this:
Clinton, Kasich, Sanders, Trump
But I have to admit to being a little partisan in the current environment, and if I was going for “best possible outcome given the current political landscape” I’d probably put both democrats first.
If we had a reasonably sane progressive party versus a reasonably sane conservative party I could conceivably vote for Kasich over Sanders, despite my more progressive leanings.
Kasich was my candidate in the primaries. It would have been a close call between him and Clinton but I stuck with my extremely weak partisan inclination for the hypothetical. Webb was my early favorite regardless of party.
Only 2 years til the midterms! Who do you want to win Florida’s third district? Incumbent Snoopy or dark horse Rainbow Dash?
I was thinking how totally different this past 3 months would have been if it was a Bush vs. Biden race.
It’s interesting to see that Clinton is winning over Sanders here (who is still doing well) , and the “Moderate” repub is in 3rd place, with NO votes for Trump.
I’m assuming that this is asking for my preference, not how I would actually vote (which, in a four-way race, would necessarily be strategic). I voted for Sanders in the primaries, so it goes without saying that I would choose him in the four-way as well.
That said, if I had to divide those four candidates into two groups based on how acceptable they would be, I would put Sanders, Clinton, and Kasich all three into the “acceptable” group, and Trump alone into the “unacceptable” one. Trump is so bad that all the usual differences between candidates fade into insignificance.
Well, the idea really, would you prefer a Sanders vs Kasich instead of Clinton vs Trump, and how well those candidates would do, faced off GOP vs Dem.
Overall, I am seeing the GOP would have done much better with Kasich and Kasich vs Sanders would be a real nailbiter of a election.
I disagree with Sanders on trade, healthcare, guns, minimum wage, campaign finance, higher ed, the federal reserve, and some aspects of foreign policy, and probably other things. And I agree with the pre-Trump GOP position on several of those issues. And assuming Kasich adopted George W. Bush’s policy on immigration after the GOP primary, then I could even flirt with his candidacy.
But the dealbreakers for me would remain the Supreme Court (especially after what they did to Garland) and climate change. If Kasich said he’d nominate Garland in the spirit of mending fences burned in partisan fire, and that he’d stay in the Paris Accords and push for a carbon tax and nuclear subsidies, then I’d be persuadable in that election I think.
Yes, I could see a path to voting for Kasich. The other thing would be to tell the GOP Congress that the ridiculous partisanship must stop.
The thing is, though, the GOP’s failure to nominate Kasich is not the same as the Democrats selecting Clinton. The Democratic Party could easily nominate someone like Sanders even in 2016’s political environment. The primary electorate liked Sanders and it was a hard-fought race. The 2016 GOP primary electorate hated Kasich. And their primary electorate is only going to get more xenophobic and skeptical of knowledge and institutions before it gets better.
Sad but true. But I didnt see any other GOP candidate that would be even a little acceptable to me… or most of this board from what I read.
From what I have read in other SDMB threads it looked like Sanders was most popular here, followed by Clinton, then Kasich.
Wow. Think of that!
I know it’s not Chinese, but it seems we have been cursed to live in interesting times.