poligazette.com - 11/7/2008
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David Axelrod, president-elect Barack Obama’s chief strategist, has agreed to go with his client to the White House, George Stephanopoulos reports .
Axelrod is what you could describe as Obama’s Karl Rove. He is a master campaigner and image builder. He helps politicians win ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 11/6/2008
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blogs.abcnews.com —
Former Obama chief strategist David Axelrod has accepted
the position of Senior Adviser in the White House,
sources tell ABC News. He will join Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill, who has accepted the position of Obama's White House Chief of Staff....
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Axelrod, Emanuel to Obama White House
spectator.org - 11/3/2008
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spectator.org —
ALL IN THE FAMILY Senior aides to Sen.
Barack Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick were aware
that Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango , was living in the United States illegally and in a South Boston public-housing project, and were ...
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Aunt Zeituni's Protectors
blogs.tnr.com - 11/6/2008
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blogs.tnr.com —
Despite their very, uh, different personalities , Obama
and Emanuel have one big thing in common: David
Axelrod. Emanuel is one of Axelrod's closest friends; Axelrod even signed the ketubah at Emanuel's wedding. They first got to know each other ...
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... hopes that they're as good at governing as they were at campaigning. But Axelrod, a political operative like Karl Rove, could politicize the White House, writes PoliGazette's Michael van der Galien , who notes that Obama has yet to include a moderate Republican in his team. Obama's new transition website may be hosted on a government web domain, but it looks just like his campaign site and even takes visitors' e-mails for possible use in mailing lists, writes Hot Air's ...
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