Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterAnalysis: Expertise trumps ideology in Obama's early picks (CQPolitics.com)
Published 11/24/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
CQPolitics.com - After he waged a campaign built around a stirring message of change, many of President-elect Obama's supporters expected him to begin stocking his administration with passionate progressives bristling to challenge the status quo. Conservatives anticipated something akin to the second coming of the New Deal.
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