I'm often disappointed to see that leadership candidates I somewhat like often don't just not win (that's overwhelmingly likely), but get absurdly low levels of the vote. If Vivek got 10% that could've helped change the whole conversation, but at 8% it was a distant, distant fourth.

Reminds me of Ron Paul back in 2008. Maybe you think he's not a good candidate for president, but a lot of people were really excited by him and ended up with a miniscule percentage of the vote. The only thing there is I think after 2008 he won in the end because the liberatarians were positioned as a much more powerful faction within the republicans.