• Obama campaign chief David Axelrod hired by UK Labour Party
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[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/74319000/jpg/_74319022_74308174.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27062278[/url] [quote]The Labour Party has appointed US election strategist David Axelrod as a strategic adviser on leader Ed Miliband's 2015 election campaign. Mr Axelrod was a key architect of Barack Obama's victory over John McCain in the 2008 presidential race. He will work alongside shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, who is to run Labour's general election strategy. Labour will pay Mr Axelrod a six-figure sum and use his consulting firm AKPD in its bid to win power. After masterminding Mr Obama's election to the White House, Mr Axelrod went on to become a senior adviser to the president. He quit the post in 2011 in order to work on the successful 2012 campaign to re-elect Mr Obama. The strategist has since acted as a media commentator and as a director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago.[/quote]
Now all Ed has to do is black up.
By this point I'd rather have Satan in government than another attempt at a coalition.
I find it funny that they think that this will help them. It's not as if Obama had an uphill struggle to win in 2008, his opponent was an old white republican following in the footsteps of George Bush.
That article gives him too much credit. A turtle with a D besides it name could have won in 08 due to the country's views on Bush and other Repubs at the time. 2012 was a bit closer admittedly. If Labour wants to spend this money, far be it for me to dissuade them.
[img]http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/25/ee/a7/25eea7dbd6ba9126532a5d18b47e2df5.jpg[/img] [b]Hey there I'm David Axelrod and my job is to make you not suck.[/b]
axelrod is a fucking brilliant surname
[QUOTE=DeeCeeTeeBee;44587597]By this point I'd rather have Satan in government than another attempt at a coalition.[/QUOTE] It's probably offensive to satan to compare him to the coalition government.
Miliband - Hope. Change. Maybe.
[QUOTE=Coppermoss;44587626]That article gives him too much credit. A turtle with a D besides it name could have won in 08 due to the country's views on Bush and other Repubs at the time. 2012 was a bit closer admittedly. If Labour wants to spend this money, far be it for me to dissuade them.[/QUOTE] Despite the 2 term itch being a pretty big factor in Obama's win in 2008 his campaign was almost ridiculously well organised with the 2012 campaign more so. They had that shit down to the point where they would call people about the election between breaks of shows they watched based on their socio-economic factors
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