David Axelrod
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"David M. Axelrod" is an American Political consulting/political consultant and director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago. He is based in Chicago, Illinois and was a top political advisor to President of the United States/President Bill Clinton and a chief campaign advisor to Barack Obama during the U.S. presidential election, 2008/campaign for the presidency in 2008.

After Obama's election, Axelrod was appointed as Senior Advisor#United States/Senior Advisor to the President. Axelrod left the White House position in early 2011 and became the Senior Strategist for Obama's successful Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2012/re-election campaign in 2012. Axelrod served as political writer for the Chicago Tribune. He is the founder of AKPD Message and Media, and operated ASK Public Strategies, now called ASGK Public Strategies.

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Bill . . . called a guy who was a towering figure and he totally defanged him.

The goal here is to signify to people that they are getting real and reliable information. I think he better make sure the contraption can fly before he markets it.

Do we want a nominee who's propped up [by] the process, or a nominee who can beat George Bush? We realize we're flying into a headwind created by the process. But what makes this such a great story is he's still aloft going into that headwind.

This was a visceral reaction to a horrible event. He feels a sense of responsibility, not just as a senator, but as an African-American senator.

I can only conclude the same geniuses who put the county budget together are now working as his campaign advisors.

Emotions always get cranked up after incidents of this type. It's good to step back and let common sense prevail. I appreciate Bill Duffy's willingness to help work through this with the Davis family and ours. That's how things get worked out, when people are willing to talk.

Royko said it was the worst thing anybody could ever do to him, ... Here he had been gratuitously nasty, and the guy calls up and makes a joke about it. He said it was totally disarming. It was also totally brilliant.

My advice was to stay a million miles away from it.

At the end of the day I think people understand that relationships are difficult sometimes.