...what portends the future of the country with one of these 2 occupying the WH?

The Donald did not have the best of nights either and I think he is in some trouble as his " brand" is now a bit tainted.

A needed change I'd say.

I find it interesting that Rubio is now the betting favorite to win the GOP nod.

Actually I think Bernie being so strong in Iowa and New Hampshire makes Hillary a much better candidate in the fall. Just imagine how weak a candidate Hillary would have been, if she had an automatic coronation. Bernie has ZERO chance of gaining traction in the big industrial states of the North, California or the South. This weekend, I watched brief excerpts of a speech she gave at a town hall gathering in Iowa, I was impressed. I have never heard Hillary speak like that ever. The primaries continue, it's all about who ends up with the most delegates,  I suspect Hillary has all the delegates she needs wrapped up already. The 2016 Democrat primaries, IMHO, are just a dog and pony show for the MSM to write and talk about.

The establishment has found their guy and he will appeal to a broad swath of the R electorate and in the GE if he makes it.

........hot and heavy. There is also no love lost between the former love birds Bush and Rubio. There is also Rubio's flip flop on immigration that I expect Cruz and Bush to fully exploit. Of course if Trump wins New Hampshire, it's likely he goes on to win the nomination.

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I do agree that there is no love lost between Rubio and Bush and it's definitely in Rubio's best interest to get rid of Bush as quickly as possible and he will likely pick up all of Jeb's support as the "establishment candidate"

.......they divvy up the establishment votes that should go to Rubio. Cruz will still get the crazies, evangelicals, voting for him. All the rest of the voters, including some blue collar democrats, skew towards Trump. This of course only plays out, if Trump wins in New Hampshire.  

I guess you all will have to continue ignoring the email scandal.  It's like in liberal's minds that it doesn't matter. It's one of the biggest breaches in government security of modern times. She makes Snowden look like a kindergartner.  

those are the current betting odds on Biden.

....... Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said as much, about the main purpose for setting up a select committee to investigate emails and Benghazzi.

It can reveal a scandal. It has failed to do so, yet. It may yet. But, like the whole Beghazzi, Fast and Furious, Planned Parent Hood, etc., etc., etc., the public is largely seeing the Republican's call of 'scandal' as the little boy who called wolf once too often!  

Look, I KNOW the Hugh Hewitt's, Judge Napitalino's (or whatever that guys name on FOX is), Andrea Tantaros's, Charles Krathammer's of this world have convicted HRC of treason and have sent her to ADX in Colorado for life without parole....I get it..Would be alot easier for Trumo or Cruz to win in Nov without Hillary....Because in GOP world, life and death revolves around the electoral college & whatever it takes to get the GOP candiate to 270 electoral votes...

I can't see anyone, in any administration, communicating 'Top Secret' info in emails. They have other systems in place for such communications.

The real question is whether the top secret information “related to national defense.” If so and if she acted with “gross negligence” in permitting the national defense information to be removed to her server, she committed a federal felony:

Clinton has maintained that she didn't send or receive email that was classified at the time, and that was the case with these emails. The "top secret" status came later. But their existence underscores the colossal irresponsibility for a secretary of State to use such a system. Inevitably material will show up that has no business being on an insecure server.

Rubio is definitely more feared than Trump.

To echo the sentiments of 2 previous posts, Clinton's excuse or defense that material was not previously marked as classified is irrelevant. Or maybe we could talk about how we had a Secretary of State that can't recognize a piece of information that should have been marked? The initial offense is that she intentionally allowed/demanded the unsecured server to be used in the first place.

email account during his service, I don't recall any flack being made...

So what.  

To Rubio's credit, though he's far from original making this claim this cycle, he's making a believer out of people.

And he used it for what? Keep in touch with his kids? Get a grocery list from his wife? Watch Porn? He had and used his secure State Department email. He said he used that for business.

Which of course makes him an establishment Republican.

Hillary set up a private server in her home to avoid congressional oversight.

12 emails so far and counting.