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"WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY Good morning! It seems that, like Barack Obama himself, the media (and I, as a member of it) has stopped working itself into a lather over 2012 and started focusing on what is still going on in 2008, at least for today. After the jump: information on the transitional goodness that will be all we&amp;#x27;re going to get out of the Obama Administration until they&amp;#x27;re actually The Administration.Biden v. Cheney Vice President Elect Joe Biden (remember him?) is set to make the most news he&amp;#x27;s made this election cycle by scoping out his new digs today and checking out the vice presidential residence. The reason it&amp;#x27;s newsworthy is that he&amp;#x27;ll be measuring the drapes&amp;amp;#8212;and, one assumes, the capacity of the owner&amp;#x27;s man-safe&amp;amp;#8212;with the current occupant, Darth Vader Dick Cheney. Recount-ing The VP Those of us who were fans of the HBO movie Recount will be both happy and sad today. The putative hero of the movie, Ron Klain, who was Al Gore&amp;#x27;s chief of staff during Gore&amp;#x27;s presidential campaign, will be joining the Obama Administration as Joe Biden&amp;#x27;s Chief of Staff. Just so you know, in real life he looks nothing like Kevin Spacey. The Clinton Transition? Barack Obama yesterday named the people that will oversee the transition at and appointments to the Departments of Treasury, State and Defense. The weird part? They are all former Clintonistas. I don&amp;#x27;t know if it will be enough to make Bill and Hillary like him, though. Whither The Partisan Hacks? One of the biggest punching bags at the White House during this election cycle&amp;amp;#8212;besides its occupant&amp;amp;#8212;was the the White House Office of Political Affairs. McCain promised to axe it, the House asked to eliminate it and Obama was, uncharacteristically, silent about it. It&amp;#x27;s best known for being the office to place your partisan political operatives, so its elimination could hurt Obama&amp;#x27;s ability to politic, which, as a politician, he&amp;#x27;s wont to do. So it probably isn&amp;#x27;t actually going anywhere. The Big Show Despite heads of state clamoring to meet the guy who will actually going to be running this country next year, Obama has decided to play by the rules and not attend this week&amp;#x27;s G-20 summit in Washington about the financial crisis. To avoid further transition speculation, he is, instead, sending former Secretary of State Madeline Albright and former Republican Congressman Jim Leach in his stead. Neither one of them takes nearly as good a photo! Did you get a thrill about Ron Klain? What do you think Biden and Cheney will discuss? Starting next week, Glamocracy will no longer be updated daily, but we will be back whenever there&amp;#x27;s important political news for women, and glamour.com will continue to cover politics in other places (like Smitten). To get an update whenever there&amp;amp;#8217;s a new post, just subscribe to the RSS feed. Megan will continue to post daily political updates this week. We asked each of the bloggers to write a goodbye&amp;amp;#8212;they are linked below. Amanda Carpenter: In the End, Sexism Won Fernanda Diaz: Looking Back: The People Who Made This Election Worth Following Asma Hasan: If I Were Obama... Caille Milner: My Top 5 Moments From the 2008 Campaign...and What I Can&amp;#x27;t Wait to See in 2009 Rebecca Roberts: Is It Too Soon to Talk About 2012?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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