Yet some political observers worry that Mr Simsek, who is only 40, may not have enough clout.
When party activists gathered in Chicago to nominate Bill Clinton to a second term in 1996, Mr. Obama was making his first run for political office, but he did not have enough clout to get full access to the convention.
But he does not have enough clout in key institutions such as the armed forces to help Mr Hu much.Hu Jintao's strongest supporter in the Politburo is likely to be Wen Jiabao, who is all but certain to replace Mr Zhu as prime minister next March.
That view is echoed by a number of Beijing-based political analysts and scholars, some of whom have worried publicly that China may not have enough clout to ward off a larger war that could send many more refugees pouring into China.
"The same is true at a local level, where council turnouts are pitiful, but there it is because town halls are not felt to have any real influence over people's day-to-day lives because they don't have enough clout".
But even the left has queried the idea, saying supporters don't have enough clout to dent the banks.
So after seven or eight months of that I knew I didn't have enough clout to get the story made.
But he doesn't have enough clout for the incorrupt cop in charge, who instead directs his men to get stuck in.
Like mushrooms around a stump, blocks devoted to automotive commerce spring up on the margins in all five boroughs: under highway overpasses, in failing warehouse districts; places where land comes cheap, and residents, if there are any, don't have enough clout to make a fuss about the piles of rusting steel littering the landscape, the dust and the noise.
Historically, these individual farmers, with their relatively small harvests, haven't had enough clout to negotiate with the traders who were buying their nuts, so they were constantly being ripped off in terms of true market price and even weighted scales in the marketplace.
