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Shortly, voters will elect the 44th President of the United States. If they chose Barack Obama (D), Democrats would take back government after an eight year absence. So, what might an Obama-Biden cabinet look like?
Here is one Democrat's assessment of who might be seated around the Cabinet Room table shortly after January 20, 2009 if Obama is elected president, based on my knowledge of the various players in Democratic circles, the people who currently advise Obama and who appear as campaign surrogates, and a review of other similar assessments of who might tapped for a possible Obama administration post.
(Note: Here's an update to this post with official leaked names of who are being considered for an Obama Cabinet.)
Richard Lugar, Greg Craig, John Kerry, Sam Nunn
Sheila Bair, Timothy Geithner, Eugene Ludwig, Laura Tyson
:Robert Gates, Jack Reed, Richard Danzig
Janet Napolitano, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Artur Davis
Lee Hamilton, Tony Lake, Richard Clarke, Tim Roemer
Greg Craig, Samantha Power, Susan Rice
Tom Vilsack, Colin Peterson, Tom Daschle, Jim Leach
Ed Rendell, Penny Pritzker, Olympia Snowe
George Miller, Tim Kaine Linda Darling-Hammond, Joel Klein
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff Bingaman
Hillary Clinton, Julie Gerberding, John Kitzhaber
Shaun Donovan, Shirley Franklin, Jesse Jackson, Jr., David Gottfried
Lincoln Chafee, Christine Gregoire, Brian Schweitzer, RFK Jr.
David Bonior, Dick Gephardt,Dan Tarullo, Linda Chavez-Thompson
James Oberstar, Ed Rendell, Earl Blumenauer, R.T. Rybak
Chet Edwards, Max ClelandTammy Duckworth
Susan Rice, Caroline Kennedy, Lee Hamilton
Kathleen McGinty, Ed Markey, Mary Nichols, Lincoln Chafee
: Austan Goolsbee, David Cutler
Tom Daschle, Greg Craig, David Plouffe
Cass Sunstein, Hillary Clinton
Mark Nickolas is the Managing Editor of Political Base, and this story was from his original post, "President Obama's Cabinet (Version 3.0)."
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