Interesting hypothetical, well worth thinking it out. I don't know how the first could even happen though; it'd take a revelation and charges that haven't even been discussed yet and that would probably flip BOTH contests on their heads. The Democrats would coalesce around one of the Senators who deferred to Clinton, potentially one of the strong female options like Klobuchar/Gillibrand. Kaine/Warner/McCaskill/Cantwell would be other options and the VP choice would probably come from that group too (as it's expected to do for Clinton). The whole party might even draft Warren.

If Clinton had to drop I guess presumably for the email practices then several Republicans would be done too for the same exact reason. Bush would be DOA (in addition to email practices, the Bush foundation is even messier than CGF). Walker's entire tenure has been consumed by a half-dozen legitimate scandals and if either Clinton/Bush were torpedoed the bullseye on him would grow. Their primary voters might not care though (they don't right now, for one) and the Walker/Rubio ticket that's already pretty likely would probably be just as likely.

Christie, Walker, Kasich, Fiorina, Rubio, Rand, Huck, a lot of these people have a whole lot of ugly things lurking just below the surface. This field comes with a particularly high number of skeletons. Hell Perry is running while under indictment. If a frontrunner had to drop because of "corruption" then most of them would be even more of a non-starter than they already should be and absolute chaos would ensue.

Edit: Forgot Huckabee. Lotttttt of skeletons there.

This post was edited by Pollster on Jul 26 2015 12:11pm

nice house

http://www.idesignarch.com/inside-donald-and-melania-trumps-manhattan-apartment-mansion/

Welp, I can admit when I'm wrong. It looks like Trump is definitely going to the debates.....

That's very scary. Should be very entertaining though.

less, but not zero, looks like no amount of smoke screen could stop huckabee from sticking his foot in his mouth
you can almost feel the junior staffers scrambling and strategists wringing their hands

Truly the genius in the other camps may be to out trump Trump...now that could make for a very interesting debate.

I mean, this was obvious given the proximity of the debates relative to his announcement. Now, will he make it to the CNN debate? That's to be seen.

trump for dictator.

The entire apparatus is still trying to sideline him but I think they've ran out of time to do so for the Fox debate. Unless all three of the first-tier campaigns suddenly signed onto the RNC scheme to pass on the first debate I just don't see how the field could get away with him not being there. Terrible news for them, because he'll be the story of the debate by default.

Cue damage control.