Congratulations on your marriage.

Though I am happy for you I am even happier about the pain you are saving gay children.

You are a hero.

Four years from now, Marco Rubio will be too bald to run for President, and Hillary will be nearly 70.

My prediction is currently we have no clue who it will be.

@2 is correct.

Now if they had one of the twins from San Antonio TX or Chelsea Clinton, I might believe it.

It's getting to be like Christmas - We're gearing up for the next cycle immediately after the last cycle just ended.

That said, I'd love to see an Elizabeth Warren/Cory Booker ticket.

This post made me throw up a little in my mouth.

Be the change you want to see, Paul.

Cool, thanks!

What about the polls for 2020?

2024?

What's taking so long?!?

The responsible sectors of the media can only get away with this shit if we watch it, click on it, and get worked up over it. Ignore them and they'll... well, not go away, but at least be forced to restrain themselves a bit.

Anyway, I don't think there's too much reason to panic. This seems more like it's attempting to slurp up the last dregs of Election 2012 than attempting to get people genuinely percolating on 2016 yet.

Kirsten Gillibrand for president, Hillary Clinton for vice-president 2016.

Most of the people who live in Iowa are reporters or campaign workers who set up camp there years ago and never managed to leave. Eventually, election cycles blur into one another.

@2 is smart. It's going to be none of the above. Booker? Castro? Hickenlooper? Patrick? Cuomo? Who the hell knows?

Hillary looks like running now, but in three years? Running for Prez takes truly phenomenal amounts of stamina. She's too old. Even if you disagree, if the Republicans run someone younger, as they almost certainly will next time, it will be a campaign issue. "Oldest president ever" is not a catchy slogan.

Rubio's going to flame out. Indeed, he already did, yesterday, when he voted against the disability treaty. People aren't going to forget that. He might have helped his chances at the nomination, though I doubt it, but he absolutely torpedoed his chance at the election itself.

Maybe Hillary Clinton still has the energy for campaigning but she'll be like 70 years old by 2016. If she feels up to it I'm voting for her. But, I'd love to see someone younger to take on the election.

@11: No, Reagan will still be the oldest at inauguration even if Hillary is elected in 2016 (by a few months). She won't be the oldest President ever unless she is elected in 2024.

214, yeah, that's close enough. And, you know, Reagan didn't really RUN for President; he just sat there and let it happen. I don't think he got less than fourteen hours of sleep a day from 1976 until the day he died. That's not going to happen for Hillary, or any other actual human.

Okay, I enjoyed the hilarity that was the republican primary. I'm a bit of a political junkie.

But please, for the love of god, don't feed this thing that is the 2016 campaign. Not yet. We haven't even sworn in the winners of the 2012 election yet. Just let it rest for a few months at least. Have pity on me.

Yes to @6.

In the immediate wake of an election, everyone's brain is thinking "election!" but the election that just happened is not generating any news (or at least, none that's interesting) so they always spend some time talking about possibilities for next time until everyone's brains reset to not thinking "election", and then they move on to other stuff.

My prediction for 2016 for the Democrats will be Hillary Clinton for President with Julian Castro for her VP, and Obama doing fundraising for her since he owes her big time for taking the fall for the Benghazi incident. Hillary does not play "second fiddle" to anyone. With that ticket she would be a "shoe- in" to be elected. Just sayin' :)