Speculating on the next presidential campaign when the current presidential campaign is barely heating up is so stupid…but it’s kind of stupid fun. So: Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, the authors of Game Change, think that a Hillary Clinton run for the White House in 2016 is very probable:
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday, co-host Willie Geist asked, “What are the odds this morning that Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2016?” Heilemann’s response: “99.4 percent, I think very high,” Politico reports.
Halperin, an editor from Time magazine, wasn’t quite as bold. “A little lower,” he said. “I think that if Joe Biden wins re-election [as vice president] and runs [for president four years from now], she’s much less likely to run.”
Since it looks like the 2012 election is going to take a while longer, let’s just get the 2016 election out of the way right now with a legally binding Slog poll: