To be honest I don't give either very good odds on becoming the 2016 nominee for their party. Not bad odds, better for Hillary then anyone else at the moment but expect a lot of 2006 or 2008 elected Dem governors to test the waters and frankly I think one will find them friendly and win the nomination. As to Christie, I do think the GOP will pick a governor in 2016 but I don't think Christie is too likely to be it. We won a lot of seats to new governors in 2010 and most of them will retain the offices in 2014 and I think a lot of them will start eyeballing the Oval Office. There's a lot of them from battleground states or tilt blue who'd be very attractive candidates. Sandoval, Scott, Snyder, Kasich, Walker, Martinez, Corbett, and Haley each could bring a lot of guns to bare if they finish out 2014 with 10+ point victories, or evne slimmer, and I'd bet on at least 75% of them getting re-elected and at least half of them by goodly margins. Ditto Cuomo, Nixon, Beshear, Dayton, and Beebe could rally a lot of Dems not interested in Biden but mistrustful of Clinton. And that's without even touching on people like Jindal, Cruz, Rubio, Jeb Bush, Paul, Perry, etc. There's not one of those people who couldn't find themselves very well positioned this time next year to be looking at a very serious presidential bid.

I don't see much room for any major new pushes but smaller things yes, and I won't rule anything out.