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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mugsy" data-source="post: 1841496" data-attributes="member: 18914">I have always supported the idea of presidential candidates making, at least tentative, cabinet appointment announcements before the election.It would definitely be of benefit to the voters.  I think the main issue is that it would give too much opportunity to the opposing candidate's operatives to dig-up dirt that could be extremely damaging to a candidate during the election.  I mean finding out that your attorney general candidate, for example, employed illegal aliens to work his house/ as nanny etc after the election is embarrassing but during the election could be a (electorally) fatal distraction.Maybe a much shorter election cycle - say 12 weeks total - with announcements one week before the general election might minimize the opportunity for dirty politics to take over.</blockquote>