Another tidbit from the USC conference today: Steve Hildebrand, Obama’s top field aide, described of the importance of the Obama campaign’s voter registration effort.

"In nine states, we registered more voters than our margin of victory," Hildebrand said.  Without the new …

Andrea Mitchell, who has a pretty good track record lately (see Clinton, Hillary), says New York Fed President Tim Geithner is likely to be Obama’s Treasury Secretary.

He’s a less forceful, public figure than his rival for the job, Larry …

This has been said before, but Obama focus group guy David Binder put it pretty well at our panel at USC today: That while the campaign was, in part, about which candidate was a riskier choice, the sense of risk …

Patrick Gaspard, a New York labor operative who was Obama’s campaign political director, will be White House political director, a Democrat confirmed.

Gaspard had held one of the most powerful jobs in New York politics as the top political hand at …

Politico’s editors, reporters and, yup, bloggers are dissecting the election at the University of Southern California today. 

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Ali Abuminah, a Chicago Palestinian-rights activist who has criticized Obama, emails that he’s "amused" by the argument — which I quoted Steve Clemons and Hendrik Hertzberg suggesting yesterday — that Obama is hiring pro-Israel stalwarts because they’ll have the …

The President-elect still hasn’t given any signal that he’ll show up in person for the Georgia run-off, but he did cut an ad for Democrat Jim Martin.

A Democrat close to Hillary says that the reported ambivalence about taking State was real.

She "said ‘no’ then ‘yes,’" I’m told.

My new colleague Carol Lee reports:

Some Verizon Wireless employees accessed billing records from a cell phone President-elect Barack Obama had used, the Obama transition team and Verizon Wireless said Thursday.

Transition spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that Obama no …

I’m on West Coast time and a bit slow, but as you’ve probably read, Mike Allen reported last night that Clinton’s apparently going to State.