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that s pretty unusual. that is a way in which this is really different from a normal transition. it s true they didn t expect to win but usually you have some kind of snap operation in place so you can start filling out the bureaucracy really fast. right now you talk to republicans in washington and this is really more even than the establishment versus grassroots tension. the big concern for a lot of people in the main street party who are just sort of more intimately committed to government, their concern is, are we going to spend the next two years just staffing up and if you do, if you spend all this time just hiring people with internal fights and confirmation battles, when do you actually get to governing? i m not sure there will be confirmation battles based on the gushing praise you re getting from republicans on capitol hill. logical lyles, right, but when you see the way the transition works right now, how many of these people have been vetted? how long will that take? ar