McCain likes the Napolitano pick. (And not just because of his re-elect.)

Kamen says Iowa player Jackie Norris will be Michelle’s CoS.

Beaumont too.

Anita Dunn stays out.

Manny Diaz is Mentioned.

Palin sells Alaska.

Ayman Al-Zawahiri, gaffe machine.

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There’s an emerging consensus that Obama will go for big, liberal projects on domestic policy, while tacking right on foreign policy. The reasons for seeing Obama as a dove were always vague: He’s an internationalist, he’s globally popular, he used …

Way back in May, Avi and I did a story on Jeff Berman, the Obama campaign’s delegate guy and an unsung hero of the primary campaign.

I mentioned in passing that he had worked for the "in-flight telecommunications firm Aircell," …

Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) says forget about the Marc Rich thing, Eric Holder’s just fine.

In fact more than fine, Leahy says, he’s as good as legendary Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, who served as a Nazi war crimes …

Penny Pritzker emails Lynn Sweet that she won’t be Commerce Secretary, contrary to reports.

Update: Mike Allen also reports that Pritzker has taken herself out of the running.

Minnesota Public Radio has some entertaining samples of the ballots now being examined for voter intent.

Micah Sifry conducted a fascinating interview with Harvard’s Marshall Ganz, a behind-the-scenes force in building Obama’s "movement," who offers a glimpse at the debate over where it goes from here:

"Here we have a guy who won who was really …

This is, as JMart notes, as big a deal as most cabinet picks, and will have real impact on Obama’s ability to push through his agenda: The environmental movement beat the auto industry in the Democratic caucus, and replaced …

People for the American Way notices a name missing from the conservative Clare Booth Luce Institute’s (non-joke) "Pretty in Mink" calendar of attractive conservative women:

Miss January — Kellyanne Conway
Miss February — Star Parker
Miss March – Susan …

If you’re in Los Angeles, we’re helping put on a conference Friday and Saturday with USC and its Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics with top folks from both campaigns. Here’s the schedule, to which I think a …