The growing buzz that Katie Couric is on her way out of the CBS Evening News starts the succession scuttlebutt, with CBS News trying to look in-house. Katie’s quite explicitly linked herself with Hillary Clinton in the America’s-too-sexist argument to explain her failure to gain widespread public acceptance.

One possibility of a successor is Russ Mitchell, the news anchor on The Early Show. Mitchell is a pretty straight-forward news anchor (which is not to say he wouldn’t observe CBS’s liberal norms). He might be a unifying choice for a news media that doesn’t live up to the diversity talk it lobs at everyone else. He might be the Obama stand-in for Couric’s Hillary.