Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
What do the master political strategists have to say about the 2024 elections? All photos courtesy of Robert Emery David Axelrod is best known for being the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns.
After Obama’s election, Axelrod was appointed as senior advisor to the president. He left that position in early 2011 to serve as the senior strategist for Obama’s successful re-election campaign in 2012.
In 2014, Axelrod was appointed senior strategic adviser to the British Labour Party to assist party leader Ed Miliband in the run-up to the 2015 general election, and he joined CNN as senior political commentator in 2015.
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