After six rounds and more than 77,000 votes cast, Kathleen Sebelius is the winner of the Eyes On Obama Veepstakes.  She received 47% (1001 votes) of the votes in the final round.  Sebelius was consistently amongst the top 3 vote getters in each round, despite little media coverage.  Other contenders shot up but then fizzled away just as quick.

Brian Schweitzer came in second place with 41% of the final round.  He has also consistently been in the top tier of candidates despite almost no discussion of him in the media.  In terms of total votes from all the rounds though, he is actually in 3^rd place behind Wesley Clark.

So what does it all mean?  It's hard to say who Obama will pick from the sea of contenders, but one thing is clear - his supporters on Eyes On Obama are looking for someone outside of Washington.  The final round saw two governors and a mayor (Michael Bloomberg), and the round before included Gen. Clark and Sen. McCaskill, who has only been in the senate for 18 months.

In case you don't know much about Kathleen Sebelius, she is a two term governor of Kansas.  She has forged productive relationships with Republicans in her state, to the point of convincing the former chair of the Republican party to run as a Democrat.  She is Catholic, and her father, John Gilligan, was Governor of Ohio.  Sebelius delivered this year's Democratic rebuttal to the State of the Union.

Since this was an elimination contest, we're curious to see if the EOO community has different opinions now.  We're going to reopen the voting, and report back tallies every couple of days.  If you want to suggest that we add another contender, leave your comments on this blog post.