I take John Kasich seriously because of our survey results suggesting he would have been elected President of the United States in 2016 by a voting mechanism that had voters rate Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump on a 0 to 100 scale and then adding up the ratings after standardizing all the ratings to have mean zero and variance 1. On that, see our post “Dan Benjamin, Ori Heffetz and Miles Kimball—Repairing Democracy: We Can’t All Get What We Want, But Can We Avoid Getting What Most of Us *Really* Don’t Want?” The 5 and a half minute video above is both interesting in its content and gives a good sense of why John Kasich was one of the least hated candidates in 2016.