Chuck Hagel could knock on the door of 99.9% of folks in the country and they’d have no idea who he was.
Most of the country doesn’t see him as anything.
Other than another almost 70 yr old white guy DC insider.
I’m not saying Hagel will really hurt him, but I don’t see Obama getting any huge boost politically. I mean a name I had seen mentioned was this Michelle Flournoy. Now, if Obama had named the first woman SecDef that would have been an event and may have helped him. Hagel won’t really make any waves or anything.
As far as what Hagel would mean for the military I’m not an expert on him(he seems to me like he’ll pretty much be a continuation of Gates and Panetta at the Pentagon) but in the end as long as Obama is in the WH the SecDef is really irrelevant. Obama pulls all the strings.
So you make my point for me. True nobody may know him but the media will tell us R so Obama is bi partisan.