The kasich numbers, imv, are largely inflated. He looks like a saint because he is not in the clinton/sanders or trump/cruz nasty cage match, but once many indies find out he is basically a generic republican his numbers will come down to earth.
He had the nuts to go on prime time GOP primary targeted CNN town halls & such and tell
Republicans to drop the gay marriage crusade as well as defend his leftist health care proposals without hesitation.
He isn't a generic reactionary Republican, everything but. That's just propaganda various butthurt users around here spread because anything that's right of Jill Stein is still a "corporately owned evil KKK wizard!"
