Obama Cabinet Poll - And the Winner is...

This has been a very interesting month and a half. After the end of the Obama Veepstakes poll (which was won by Bill Richardson) I started to think about an Obama cabinet. In the process of looking beyond the known figures I found a lot of impressive persons, some of whom made it into my personal Obama cabinet.

I also put together five different cabinets (combined of the top three to top five of the individual cabinet post polls and a few wildcards) and you had a chance to rate them on a scale from 1 (hate it) to 10 (love it).

The winning cabinet is below the fold:

Here are the final results of the Obama Cabinet poll:

5. An Obama/Kaine cabinet: 5.0 (68 votes)

4. An Obama/Napolitano cabinet: 5.7 (106 votes)

3. An Obama/Sebelius cabinet: 5.89 (140 votes)

2. An Obama/Webb cabinet: 5.9 (94 votes)

And the winner is:

An Obama/Richardson cabinet: 6.17 (283 votes)

President of the United State:

Barack Obama (IL)

Vice President of the United State:

Bill Richardson (NM)

Secretary of State:

John Kerry (MA)

Secretary of the Treasury:

Laura Tyson (CA)

Secretary of Defense:

Chuck Hagel (NE)

Attorney General:

Russ Feingold (WI)

Secretary of the Interior:

Maria Cantwell (WA)

Secretary of Agriculture:

Tom Vilsack (IA)

Secretary of Commerce:

Olympia Snowe (ME)

Secretary of Labor:

David Bonior(MI)

Secretary of Health and Human Services:

Marian Wright Edelman

Secretary of Housing and Urband Development:

Federico Peña (CO)

Secretary of Transportation:

Deedee Corradini (UT)

Secretary of Energy:

Shirley Jackson (NY)

Secretary of Education:

Mazie Hirono (HI)

Secretary of Veterans Affairs:

Max Cleland (GA)

Secretary of Homeland Security:

Richard Clarke

White House Chief of Staff:

David Plouffe

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency:

Lincoln Chafee (RI)

Director of the Office of Management and Budget:

Rosa DeLauro (CT)

United States Trade Representative:

Austan Goolsbee (IL)

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This was a fun and interesting exercise. Thanks to everyone who voted in this polling series. Obviously, the winner is not to everyone's liking (not surprising with 20 different positions). So, which persons do you think are in the right spot in the winning cabinet and where would you make changes?