Transition Is Around the Corner

Even though the McCain-Obama battle is just getting started, it is not too early for their political teams to start thinking about the transition to the White House. It might even be too late. When it comes to organizing a new administration, history "tells us that any winning candidate who has not started at least six months before the election will be woefully behind come the day after Election Day," John Kamensky wrote on his blog last year, before the Clinton-Obama sprint turned into a marathon. Kamensky was a "reinventing government" aide to then-vice president Al Gore. Now a senior fellow at the IBM Center for the Business of Government, he posts transition updates and related information at least twice a week at http://www.transition2008.wordpress.com. Kamensky's goal is to pull together what different think tanks, nonprofit organizations and other groups are planning or doing on federal management issues that likely will require the attention of the next president.
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