The Daily Transition RUMINT, 10/31

Note: from now on, no more speculating about staff-level jobs... there are too many sensitivities. (If I get hard info, I'll pass it along.)  Cabinet-level appointment, chiefs of staffs and senior national security jobs are still fair game.

Below, a compilation of all the tips, rumors and noise that's come in. If people have publicly said they won't serve, I've taken them off the list... although... it's hard to say no to a president.

Again, no one who really knows... is talking.

Chief of staff -- McCain:  Mark Salter, Mark Buse

Attorney General -- McCain: A.B. Culvahouse, George Terwilliger III,  Larry Thompson (ABA Journal)

White House Counsel --  McCain: Ted Olson,  Trevor Potter (ABA Journal)

Defense -- McCain:   Lindsay Graham, Joe Lieberman, John Lehman

Treasury -- McCain: Robert Portman, Mitt Romney, Jack Kemp,

Homeland Security -- McCain -- McCain: Rudy Giuliani

Energy -- McCain: Heather Wilson
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Chief of staff -- Obama: Rahm Emanuel, Tom Daschle, Jim Messina, Peter Rouse, David Plouffe

Attorney General -- Obama:   Eric Holder, Caroline Kennedy, Cass Sunstein, Kathleen Sullivan, Janet Napolitano, Patrick Fitzgerald

Homeland Security -- Obama: Jane Harman, Artur Davis

State -- Obama:  Richard Holbrooke, John Kerry, Bill Richardson, Chuck Hagel, Thomas Pickering, Chris Dodd

Defense -- Obama: Robert Gates (temporary extension), Richard Danzig, Joe Lieberman, Tim Roemer, Thomas Pickering, Anthony Zinni, Sam Nunn

Energy -- Obama: Steve Westly, Frederico Pena, Dan Reicher, James Grummet

Treasury -- Obama: Lawrence Summers, John Geithner, Indira Nooyi

National Security Adviser -- Obama:  Greg Craig, James Steinberg, Susan Rice, Rand Beers

Amb to the UN -- Obama: Susan Rice, Tony Lake

Education -- Obama: Kathleen Sebelius, Janet Napolitano, Michael Bennet., George Miller

HUD -- Obama: Valerie Jarrett

HHS -- Obama: Tom Daschle, Howard Dean

AG/Interior -- Obama: John Kitzhaber, Tom Vilsack, Jay Inslee, Jamie Rappoport Clark, Brian Schweitzer

Transportation -- Obama -- Earl Blumenauer

DNI -- Obama -- Obama: Tim Roemer, John Brennan, Rand Beers, Jane Harman, John Abizaid, Evan Bayh

Commerce-- Obama: : Ron Kirk, Eric Schmidt, Kathleen Sebelius

EPA -- Obama:  Robert Sussman, Kathleen McGinty, Mary Nichols

Note: Grist.org has some of the better-informed Democratic speculation I've seen.