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The controversy over Hillary Clintons e-mails and her unconvincing press conference at the United Nations have gotten many Democrats and others thinking the unthinkable: Clinton may not be the Democrats 2016 nominee for president.

And it has many asking the question scary for Democrats of who else could be.

Its not a strong field. Vice President Joe Biden is 72 and has low poll ratings.

Elizabeth Warren inspires the Democratic left, but says shes not running perhaps for fear of exposure of her dubious claim, when seeking prestigious law-school jobs, of Cherokee ancestry.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth WarrenPhoto: AP

Others are even less likely. Bernie Sanders, age 73, is a self-described socialist. The interesting Jim Webb is out of sync with an increasingly leftist party.

Martin OMalley couldnt get his lieutenant governor elected to succeed him in a 62 percent Obama state.

California Gov. Jerry Brown turns 78 in 2016. Andrew Cuomo lives with a woman not his wife not a problem in New York, but not helpful for a national candidate.

Democrats have a weak field in part because of their poor showing in recent statewide elections. And theres another problem.

The geographically clustered Obama coalition blacks, Hispanics (in some states), gentry liberals tends to elect officeholders with little incentive to compile records that would make them competitive in target states and capable of winning crossover votes.

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Why the Democrats bench is so weak