NOTE TO READER: This diary is an experiment in community evolution. It originally started at DailyKos and I’ve incorporated suggestions from grannyhelen and that community into this revised version.

Fantasy football is pretty popular these days.

I don’t play it myself, but the idea of choosing a team based on my own idea of experience, potential, compatibility, and balance, and then finding out that the team I chose was the best combination of players possible-hey, that’s pretty cool.

So I thought, let’s play a game here.

This is the situation:

A Democratic candidate, presumably one of the “big 3” currently handicapped to win, has been elected. For the purposes of this community, who should we assume won? How about…oh…I don’t know…maybe…Edwards?

I think we can go with that.

You are an advisor to the transition committee.

You have been assigned the responsibility of recommending cabinet appointments.