Obama Cabinet Poll - An Obama/Kaine Cabinet

Within the past month I put forth 19 polls with 15 candidates each to figure out who you guys want in an Obama cabinet. With voting in all rounds now over I compiled five different cabinets and will put them all up for a vote this week.

Who got included in the final cabinets: the top three in each poll automatically made it into these final cabinet polls, in some cases also the 4th and 5th. However, to make sure that the cabinets are as diverse as possible I gave some candidates who didn't have enough votes a wildcard.

Each day this week you can rate a cabinet. Today, you can rate a possible Obama/Richardson cabinet on a scale from 1 (hate it) to 10 (love it). At the end I will post the results and the cabinet with the highest average wins.

The VP candidates were chosen in the previous Obama Veepstakes poll series. The top four were Bill Richardson, Jim Webb, Kathleen Sebelius and Tim Kaine. Janet Napolitano received a wildcard.

Again, these cabinets are compiled with the winners in the polls and a few wildcards. The five individual cabinets were put together randomly making sure that they all have the same level of diversity (gender, race, party, state).

Here's the Obama/Kaine cabinet:

President of the United State:

Barack Obama (IL)

Vice President of the United State:

Tim Kaine (VA)

Secretary of State:

Susan Rice

Secretary of the Treasury:

Chris Dodd (CT)

Secretary of Defense:

Louis Caldera (NM)

Attorney General:

Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)

Secretary of the Interior:

Olympia Snowe (ME)

Secretary of Agriculture:

Ellen Haas

Secretary of Commerce:

Robert Reich (MA)

Secretary of Labor:

Linda Sanchez (CA)

Secretary of Health and Human Services:

Hillary Clinton (NY)

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development:

Lincoln Chafee (RI)

Secretary of Transportation:

Janette Sadik Khan (NY)

Secretary of Energy:

Jerry McNerney (CA)

Secretary of Education:

Wendy Kopp

Secretary of Veterans Affairs:

Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD)

Secretary of Homeland Security:

James Lee Witt (AR)

White House Chief of Staff:

Valerie Jarrett (IL)

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency:

Rocky Anderson (UT)

Director of the Office of Management and Budget:

Xavier Becerra (CA)

United States Trade Representative:

Jim Kolbe (AZ)

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Again, these are not my personal choices. Here's what my Obama cabinet would look like.

You can also still rate:

An Obama/Richardson Cabinet

An Obama/Napolitano Cabinet

And for those of you who think it's too early to talk about an Obama cabinet: I understand. But look at it this way: Seeing what an Obama cabinet could look like can be a great incentive to work even harder for Obama to win the election in November.