David M. Axelrod is an American political consultant and analyst. He is best known for being the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. As of December 2019, Axelrod serves as the director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. His memoir is titled Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.
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David M. Axelrod is an American political consultant and analyst and former White House official. He is best known for being the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. As of December 2019, Axelrod serves as the director of the non-partisan University of Chicago Institute of Politics. His memoir is titled Believer: My Forty Years in Politics. He was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, and grew up in its Stuyvesant Town area. His father, Joseph Axelrod, was a psychologist and avid baseball fan, who migrated from Eastern Europe to the United States at the age of eleven. He lost his father to suicide in 1977, around the time of his graduation. He met his future wife, business student Susan Landau, and they married in 1979. In June 1981, their first child, a daughter, was diagnosed with epilepsy at seven months of age. He worked for the Chicago Tribune for eight years, covering national, state and local politics, becoming their youngest political writer in 1981. At 27, he became the City Hall Bureau Chief and a political columnist for the paper. He left the Tribune and joined the campaign of U.S. Senator Paul Simon as communications director in 1984. He formed the political consultancy firm Axelrod & Associates in 1985. In 1987 he worked on the successful reelection campaign of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor, while spearheading Simon’s campaign for the 1988 Democratic Presidential nomination.
He later became a key player in similar mayoral campaigns of black candidates, including Dennis Archer in Detroit, Michael R. White in Cleveland, Anthony A. Williams in Washington, D. C., Lee P. Brown in Houston, and John F. Street in Philadelphia. In 2004, he worked for John Edwards’ presidential campaign, but continued as the campaign’s spokesman. He has commented that he has a lot of respect for John, but at some point the candidate never happened to close the deal with him. He styles himself a \”specialist in urban politics.\” The Economist notes he also specializes in \”packaging black candidates for white voters\”. In January 1990, he was hired to be the media consultant for the all but official re-election campaign of Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt. However, Goldsch Schmidt announced in February that he would not seek re- Election. In October 2003, he helped Dalton McGuinty and his party in Ontario to be elected into government in the October 2003 election. He also worked as a consultant for Exelon, an Illinois-area utility which operated the largest fleet of nuclear reactors in the United United States. He joined CNN as Senior Political Commentator in 2015.
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