President Kasich? It could happen. Polls are showing that if the election was held today, the only Democrat who would beat any of the three Republican candidates is Bernie Sanders. They also show Hillary Clinton beating, but with an uncomfortably small margin, either Trump or Cruz. However, if she runs against
Kasich recent polls show him eking out a win in the popular votes, though that wouldn’t necessarily mean he would win because of peculiarities in the electoral college.
To show how the media, mainstream and not-so-mainstream, aren’t taking Kasich’s path to the nomination very seriously, I could find only one comprehensive article about what Kasich stands for.
That was from way back in August on CBS. It is worth reviewing just where he stands because, although even with issues such as abortion and same sex marriage (against of course), he is far more moderate than his opponents.
In a contested Republican convention, if these polling results show him to be the only candidate with a reasonable chance of beating Clinton, delegates may “have a come to Jesus moment” and support this reasonably Christian candidate:
Kasich has leaned on his Christian faith to explain his approach to politics.
"Put yourself in somebody else's shoes. Put yourself in the shoes of a mother and a father of an adult child that is struggling...Understand that poverty is real," he told reporters in 2013, as the Ohio legislature was mulling his push to expand Medicaid. "When you die and get to the meeting with St. Peter, he's probably not going to ask you much about what you did about keeping government small. But he is going to ask you what you did for the poor. You better have a good answer.” (CBS News profile)
Candidates make many impossible to keep promises. As president Kasich said he’d reunited Pink Floyd on his first day in office. One could only hope.