David Axelrod Quotes
Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.
Axelrod, David. Interview. Fox News Sunday, Fox News, 2010.
Based on incomplete returns from the previous night, the newspaper staff concluded that Truman lost, and printed the "news." A famous picture shows Truman gleefully holding up the newspaper with its headline for all to see. Truman said on that occasion: "That ain't the way I heard it."
Nussbaum was her boss at the time. She was working as a staffer for the Congressional committee that was investigating the possible impeachment of Richard M. Nixon.
Kristol’s reputation as a political pundit suffered as a result of this assertion. However, Kristol was a very astute observer of the political scene; it indicates how remote Obama’s chances were believed to be even in 2006. Kristol was not alone in his view, just more bold in asserting it.
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. After Obama's election, Axelrod was appointed as Senior Advisor to the President. He left the position in early 2011 and became the Senior Strategist for Obama's successful re-election campaign in 2012. Axelrod wrote for the Chicago Tribune, and joined CNN as Senior Political Commentator in 2015. 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.
