Stadium seating on the platforms seems to be in the future of the 2016 GOP presidential debates. With the buzz about Marco Rubio’s entry into the lists growing and the return of Mitt Romney likelier every day, with John Kasich telling me last Thursday that he’s considering jumping in, and a full dance card of candidates at the Iowa Freedom Forum this past Saturday (with only about half the known field in attendance), the sudden start to 2016 is already in the rearview mirror.

RealClearPolitics’ Sean Trend is joining me and Florida-based political guru Rick Wilson in glimpsing the long-hoped-for unicorn of politics, an “open” or “brokered” convention, on the horizon. It is actually better than a unicorn, according to Wilson, who sees the prospect of such a spectacle as more like “a naked leprechaun riding on a unicorn,” for journalists and consultants at least.