David Axelrod

By rss@youtube.com (VSAPartners) Part 1 of 2 Creative director Sol Sender tells the story of conception and birth of the Obama 08 logo, including the strategy behind it, developmental concepts and finalist designs for the identity not chosen by the campaign. Sender, now a strategist with design agency VSA Partners (http...

Citizen Kate catches up with David Axelrod, Barack Obama's chief strategist, and finds out the key to Obama's success...butter. After the big ... www.veoh.com

U.S. News & World Report That's the word from David Axelrod, a senior White House adviser and Obama's chief strategist in last year's campaign. "He likes the job," Axelrod says in a ... White House: We're Not in the “Immediate Gratification Business”ABC News all 2 news articles »

Axelrod was Obama's chief campaign strategist. The 2nd District results handed Obama the first presidential electoral vote from Nebraska awarded to a ... David Plouffe on the Audacious Presidential Campaign of 2008Riverfront Times

U.S. Senate candidate David Hoffman sat down today at the White House with President Obama's senior strategist, David Axelrod, but the city's former Inspector General would reveal little of what the two men talked about. "It was a good discussion," Hoffman said after the meeting. Hoffman'...

Oct. 9: Obama chief strategist David Axelrod reacts to the president being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. "Presidents work hard to bring some issues to the fore internationally and point the world in the direction of solving some very big problems. I think this is a recognition of that," sai...

Consulting firm linked to strategist David Axelrod is hired for multimillion-dollar campaign for health reform • Federal Deficit to Hit $1.58 Trillion This Year • Dems Prepare to Push Health Care Without GOP • So Much for Bipartisanship? | FULL COVERAGE • Obama Caught Between a Rock and a...

He believes this is the most equitable way to do this," said senior White House strategist David Axelrod. "It places the burden on people who can most afford it." But many Democrats, particularly in the Senate, have balked at the idea, ...

CBC.ca  IL The joke was in reference to David Axelrod, who was a chief strategist in Obama's presidential campaign, and one of the key factors that led to Obama's win of the Iowa caucus in 2008. Axelrod is currently a senior adviser to the president, ...

 IL by Vice President Joseph Biden); Turtle, his chunky gofer-buddy from childhood who'll do whatever Vince needs done (played by Communications Director Robert Gibbs); his reasonably sane friend and manager, Eric (played by strategist David Axelrod); ...

 CA Now, how could political strategist David Axelrod possibly resist staging a tale like that? But Obama did explain that the nation's newest First Dog should be in place when he and Michelle return from their European trip in early April. ...

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Obama denied having conversations with Blagojevich about his choice, though his political strategist David Axelrod said last month that Obama had. Obama declined further comment when asked whether his staff members had discussed the matter with the governor, but he then promised to r...

By Bob Albrecht Davis, along with pollster Bill McInturff, reminisced about the campaign with Obama campaign manager David Plouffe and strategist David Axelrod Thursday night in a discussion moderated by “Washington Week,” host Gwen Ifill at the Harvard Institute of Politics in Cambridge.

By Ari Melber Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, was recently asked by Time what the "defining moment" was on the campaign, "the moment when you thought Obama could win?" Axelrod's mind went to Jacksonville. Ari Melber is covering the Obama campaign for The Washington Independent, blogging f...

By Andrew Malcolm CBS' "Face the Nation": David Axelrod (Obama chief strategist) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C./McCain supporter); Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y./chairman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) and John Ensign (R-Nev./chairman, National Republican Senatorial Committee).

By John McCormick by John McCormick David Axelrod, Obama's top strategist, said the senator and his aunt, Zeituni Onyango, are not very close. He said the two had not spoken in years. I know Sen. Barack Obama," Reid said. "Nevada, I trust Sen. Barack Obama to bring about change."

By Jason Horowitz A few feet away, and surrounded by a much bigger circle of reporters, Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod responded to Davis’ assertion that it was a good idea for the McCain campaign to keep attacking Obama. “I have to agree with him,” he said.

Fox News Sunday: McCain manager Rick Davis, Obama strategist David Axelrod, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) and a panel with Brit Hume, Fox News Washington Managing Editor, Mara Liasson, National Public Radio & Fox News, Bill Kristol, Weekly Sta...

GUTHRIE: Well, that's true. I mean, to that point, we just heard [NBC News correspondent] Ron [Allen] that David Axelrod [chief political strategist for Obama] and others are with Biden now. So these debates are important, and so you do put the full-court press.

By Patrick Frank Sunday on Meet The Press, Tom Brokaw moderated a debate between McCain strategist Steve Schmidt and Obama strategist David Axelrod on topics ranging from Iraq to the Wall Street bailout. At the end, Tom Brokaw did something strange. He opted to give himself the last word and told the audien...

By Domenico Montanaro Per NBC/NJ’s Mike Memoli, Obama strategist David Axelrod talked about the upcoming Biden-Palin debate. On the preparations: "You prepare like you would for any debate." Says VP debates are "the most difficult" though because "in a vice-presidential debate you gotta think about your ow...

On the September 28 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, during his interview with McCain campaign senior adviser Steve Schmidt and Obama campaign chief strategist David Axelrod, host Tom Brokaw did not challenge Schmidt's false assertion that Sen. John McCain "called for the firing of Don...

By Patty At the same time that Sen. John McCain was saying that he didn't deserve credit for getting an economic bailout package to the brink of completion, his campaign's chief strategist was arguing that the Senator played an integral role.

By Nicole Belle CBS’ “Face the Nation” - Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. NBC’s “Meet the Press” - Former President Clinton; David Axelrod, Obama’s chief strategist; Steve Schmidt, senior adviser to McCain; Rep. Mark Udall, D-Colo.; former Rep. Bob Schaffer, R-Colo.

Both campaigns said they would pick favorite moments from the debate to highlight in the days to come. McDonald said McCain would continue to criticize Obama for voting against a bill that included funding for troops. [Obama campaign chief strategist David] Axelrod said McCain's focus o...

By Noel Sheppard Obama's top political strategist, David Axelrod, co-owns the firm, ASK Public Strategies, that was hired by the hospital last year to sell the program -- called the Urban Health Initiative -- to the community as a better alternative for poor patients. Obama's wife and Valerie Jarrett, a...

By Carpetbagger I talked to someone earlier this week who worked tangentially on some previous campaigns with David Axelrod, the Obama campaign’s chief strategist. He told me, “Axelrod’s not the type to drop a refrigerator on a guy’s head. He’ll take the refrigerator apart, drop one piece at a time, and sa...

Put aside the flap over the cover of the new New Yorker, a cartoon portraying the Obamas' in the Oval Office--- Barack Obama in a turban with Michelle Obama wielding an AK-47 machine gun with a picture of Osama Bin Laden in the background. The Obama campaign finds it offensive and with good re...

By Mark Finkelstein It's rare to hear an MSM figure flatly suggest that a presidential campaign lied, but Joe Scarborough broke out the the l-word today in wondering whether chief Obama strategist David Axelrod did just that when he emphatically denied, on yesterday's show, that there is a concerted "make...

By Jim Newell 8:42 — Republicans think — 58% to 37% — that Barack Obama is more likely than Hillary Clinton to beat John McCain, according to exit polls. But clearly no one thinks that John McCain will lose. 8:45 — Obama chief strategist David Axelrod is on the teevee now, and he's just not a good-looking fel...

By eriposte We've all heard endless negative stories about Sen. Clinton's pollster Mark Penn. Howard Wolinsky of Business Week looks at Sen. Obama's chief strategist (and former Exelon consultant) David Axelrod - "the master of astroturfing" - and his public relations and astroturfing firm (ASK Pu...

By eriposte In addition, Mr. Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, has worked as a consultant to Exelon. A spokeswoman for Exelon said Mr. Axelrod’s company had helped an Exelon subsidiary, Commonwealth Edison, with communications strategy periodically since 2002, but had no involv...

By Jason Horowitz Hillary Clinton began one of her last appeals to Iowa voters by lifting Barack Obama’s signature line. Axelrod also took a shot at Clinton pollster and chief strategist Mark Penn, who has spun furiously over the last two days to refute the notion that things were getting away from his candi...

By Dan Hannaher Obama Takes `Sister Souljah' Tack to Gain Ground on Clinton That's a chance Obama, who is trailing Clinton in national polls, may have to take, said Stephanie Cutter, a Democratic strategist and communications director for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.

Aides for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama clashed last night at a forum at Harvard. Clinton strategist Mark Penn responded to a question about his candidate's vote for the Iraq war resolution by noting that Obama has said he can't say how he would have voted had he been in the Senate with acc...