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| Name | David A. Plouffe |
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Washington, District of Columbia , United States |
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May 27, 1967
(56 years)
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
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| Info | DAVID A. PLOUFFE (pronounced "Pluff")
Age: 41
Residence: Grew up in Mill Creek area of Delaware. Now lives in Washington, D.C., and Chicago.
Profession: Political consultant, currently running presidential campaign of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who will accept the Democratic nomination this week.
Experience: Former executive director of Democratic Congressional Campaign Commitee; former aide to House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt; previously worked on two presidential campaigns and ran or worked on more than a half-dozen congressional races; partner in AKP&D Message and Media, a Chicago political consulting firm.
Education: St. John the Beloved School, Archmere Academy, St. Mark's High School, University of Delaware.
Family: Married, with one young son and expecting a newborn this fall.
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Career
Plouffe began his political career when he went to work for Senator Tom Harkin's 1990 re-election campaign. He later worked as a state field director for Harkin's unsuccessful 1992 Presidential campaign. In the same year he successfully managed Congressman John Olver's first re-election bid in Western Massachusetts. In 1994 Plouffe managed Delaware Attorney General Charles M. Oberly's unsuccessful campaign against Senator William V. Roth Jr.. He then worked as campaign director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1995. In 1996 Plouffe managed Bob Torricelli's successful campaign to fill Bill Bradley's New Jersey seat in the United States Senate.
From 1997 to 1998 Plouffe served as Democratic leader Richard Gephardt's Deputy Chief of Staff. In 1999-2000, as executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Plouffe led a national campaign that raised a record $95 million for House races across the country.
In the winter of 2000, Plouffe joined AKP&D Message and Media, but left briefly to serve as a strategist for Gephardt's unsuccessful Presidential bid. He returned to the firm and became a partner in February 2004. Beginning in 2003, Plouffe and fellow AKP&D partner David Axelrod worked on Barack Obama's 2004 Illinois Senate campaign, beginning his association with Obama. Plouffe worked with Axelrod on the successful 2006 campaign of Deval Patrick for Governor of Massachusetts.
Manager of the 2008 Barack Obama Presidential Campaign
Plouffe is the campaign manager for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. He is credited with the campaign's successful overall strategy in the race (primarily with Senator Hillary Clinton) for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, to focus on the first caucus in Iowa and on maximizing the number of pledged delegates, as opposed to focusing on states with primaries and the overall popular vote. He is also credited by The New Republic for Obama's success in the Iowa caucus and for crafting an overall strategy to prolong the primary past Super Tuesday. The Chicago Tribune writes, "Plouffe was the mastermind behind a winning strategy that looked well past Super Tuesday's contests on Feb. 5 and placed value on large and small states." Axelrod praised him: "... David Plouffe has done the most magnificent job of managing a campaign that I've seen in my life of watching presidential politics. To start something like this from scratch and build what we have built was a truly remarkable thing."
Plouffe also maintains discipline over communications in the campaign, including controlling leaks and releasing information about the campaign on its terms. Averse to publicity himself, Plouffe's control over the internal workings of the Obama campaign successfully avoided the publicly aired squabbles that frequently trouble other campaigns.
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