At 10:40am EST on Monday, President-Elect Obama will introduce his national security team. He’s retaining Defense Secretary Robert Gates at the Pentagon and is naming retired Marine Gen. James Jones as national security adviser. Then there is the matter of Secretary of State.
The negotiations are complete and a deal has been finalized. Hillary […]
President-Elect Barack Obama is looking to extend his Cabinet from a Team of Rivals to a bi-partisan team as well. Roberts Gates will remain as Defense Secretary. Considering who he replaced, Gates has served with nobility and humility, two characteristics lacking from Donald Rumsfeld. He will work well with the Obama team.
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Kudos (again) to Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com. His projections and observations during the election cycle made him a breakout star in the political junkie universe. Now Silver is stepping up to the plate again. This time his in-depth regression anlaysis of the Minnesota Senate recount reveals that Al Franken should defeat Norm Coleman by a […]
How close is close? How about 115 votes. That’s all that separate incumbent Norm Coleman from Al Franken. That is a frigheningly close figure, with 40% of the recount still to come.
According to CBS: Coleman entered the recount with a 215-vote edge over Franken. That lead has dropped to 115 votes […]
The Team of Rivals is real. Multiple sources are now confirming that the Obama team has resolved all potential issues surrounding the appointment of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. The position will be formally announced after Thanksgiving.
The AP is reporting, “An aide to Barack Obama’s transition team says the president-elect is on […]
After Eric Holder was announced as President-Elect Obama’s selection for Attorney General, many wondered about what the future held for the very popular Governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitano. CNN is now reporting that Napolitano is about to be offered the role of Secretary of Homeland Security.
Some had suggested she was interested in running against […]
Many Democrats wanted to give Joe Lieberman the boot from his powerful committee chairmanship. But Barack Obama thought different. CNN is reporting, “Senate Democrats appear willing to let Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, keep his powerful Homeland Security Committee chairmanship, even though he campaigned vigorously for Sen. John McCain’s White House bid. But […]
Ronald Reagan was called “The Great Communicator” for his ability to connect with voters. Now, Barack Obama is showing he has that same ability. Just after Election Day, William Kristol wrote in the New York Times that it wasn’t so much the election results that concerned him about the future of the Republican […]
I can remember as far back as a decade ago someone asking me “who listens to the President’s weekly radio address anyway?” It was a good point. To this day I cannot tell you what time or what AM station broadcasts this address. Yet, year after year it is delivered by […]
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin masterfully chronicaled Abraham Lincoln’s ability to put aside differences from the 1860 election and built his cabinet with his rivals. They included a popular elected official from New York who was the front-runner going into the election, whose outcome seemed certain until an upstart from Illinois pulled off an incredible […]