Sizing up the 2016 presidential race, how important is the issue of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state conducting public business on a private email acct?

Must not be that important to her followers because Hillary is trouncing the 2016 Republican “hopeful wannabes”, but I’m sure you Faux Noise viewers won’t hear about the latest opinion poll numbers.  The issue is all Repub-hype, the newest strategy of the Benghazi investigators, who couldn’t find anything more relevant to throw at her.  Hillary responded by turning over 55,000 emails stemming from her duties as the U.S. chief diplomat.  Supposedly there was no outright ban at the State Dept. on using a personal email address to conduct official government business, and Hillary has stated that she used a personal email acct for convenience, reasoning that all her communications to state staff went to the .gov server that would  automatically go into storage.  According to a new CNN/ORC poll Rand Paul comes closest at 43% saying they’d back him and Hillary is at 54%.  The Democratic primaries don’t begin for another eleven months, and the general election is still some 20 months away.  Hillary will be the clear front-runner so expect a lot more mud-slinging.