February 6, 2008

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Having seen the name of Obama’s chief economics adviser Austan Goolsbee appear on a few blogs recently, I’ve become curious about who else is on the teams of the two lead candidates. Here’s what I’ve found:

The Chicago Tribune wrote a nifty round-up of Obama’s team of advisers. In fact, it seems they wrote two.

Meanwhile, here’s a brief Telegraph piece on Team Hillary. Here’s a wonderful Washington Post write-up of the Clinton squad, “Hillaryland.” An additional WaPo rundown. The articles themselves give you such an interesting picture of the candidates’ leadership styles and expertise. And from these articles, here are some links on some of the big names (I’m likely to refine this list as I get time to look into it):

Team Hillary:

• Mark Penn: chief pollster and strategist
• Harold Wolfson: senior communications director (no Wikipedia link, using a NYTimes story)
• Patti Solis Doyle: campaign manager
• Mandy Grunwald: chief media consultant
• Leecia Eve: chief policy adviser
• Ann Lewis: senior adviser
• Terry McAuliffe: campaign chairman

Team Obama:

• Foreign policy/national security:
  • Anthony Lake
  • Susan Rice
  • Samantha Power
  • Gregory Craig
  • Richard Danzig
  • Scott Gration
  • Merrill McPeak
• Domestic policy:
  • Austan Goolsbee
  • Michael Froman
  • David Cutler
  • David Blumenthal (PBS interview, may be better)
  • Jeffrey Liebman
  • Dan Tarullo
  • Eric Holder
  • Cass Sunstein
  • Laurence Tribe
  • Cassandra Butts
• Staff:
  • Mark Alexander: former campaign policy director
  • Heather Higginbottom: campaign senior policy strategist (couldn’t find much on her, but was kind of amazed to find that this Snarkmarket post was already among the results!)
  • Karen Kornbluh: Senate policy director

Conveniently, Foreign Policy in Focus just wrote up a handy little evaluation of the candidates’ teams:

Senator Clinton