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Doug Mills/The New York Times Some may call them campaigns, but for David Plouffe, a political adviser to President Obama, they are “brass-knuckle time.” WASHINGTON — David Plouffe is not a hugger, crier or someone who gets all gaga every time he walks i
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This afternoon, David Plouffe, Senior Advisor to President Obama, sent the message below to the White House email list, announcing that Congress has passed an extension of the payroll tax cut. If you didn't get the email, be sure to sign up. This week, t
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President Barack Obama waves as he departs the White House. It's been a season of assessments for Barack Obama. Four major magazine pieces about his first three years as president have come out in the last four weeks: a monumental contextualization of Ob
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San Francisco philanthropist Susie Tompkins Buell, who for decades has ranked as one of the Democratic Party's most generous benefactors, is keeping her checkbook closed when it comes to President Obama's high-priced California fundraisers this week. "I
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The White House today announced that President Obama is planning on buying Catholics a present to make them feel better in the aftermath of a an administration decision to require Catholic institutions to provide employees with free birth control. “It wi
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This morning, David Plouffe, Senior Advisor to President Obama, sent the message below to the White House email list, asking people to tell us what it would mean to lose $40 with every paycheck if the payroll tax cut expires at the end of the month. If y
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The furor over the Obama administration's contraception coverage decision has generated a spate of articles proclaiming the return of the social issues in the 2012 campaign. But while they're being discussed more, I doubt that they'll prove decisive. Unl
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So, let's talk about women's health and health care today. It's a great topic, and doesn't get enough coverage (and only children's health means more to me, being a pediatrician). But while we're at it, let's also talk about precedent, federalism and equ
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Shortly after four o’clock on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 13, 2011, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner walked down the hallway near his office toward a large conference room facing the building’s interior. He was accompanied by a retinue of couns
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The contraception controversy has made me think of no one so much as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. What’s that I say? I mean that the slow-footed political response by the administration to something that was obviously a political problem reminded me directly
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WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will announce a plan to accommodate religious employers outraged by a rule that would require them to cover birth control for women free of charge, according to a person familiar with the decision. Obama was expected to
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BEN FELLER, AP White House Correspondent | WASHINGTON Senior administration officials tell The Associated Press that President Barack Obama on Friday will announce that religious employers will not have to cover birth control for their employees after a
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Minting large-denomination platinum coins to expand the money supply, pointing out that appropriations bills constructively repeal the debt ceiling, recess-appointing Nobel Prize winners to the Federal Reserve Board, using FHFA to attempt to rebalance th
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WASHINGTON — Presi
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WEST WING MINDMELD on contraceptive compromise, to be announced today : “It is a political issue to be dealt with in the near term, yes. But in terms of the people that will decide this election next November? Having this issue -- and generally women’s h
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Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York addresses the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore, Marylalnd November 14, 2011. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday the White House was working to address concerns ra
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WASHINGTON -- Democrats are deeply divided over President Barack Obama's new rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide insurance for free birth control to their employees amid fresh signs that the administration was scrambling for a way out.
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How much is your vote worth? (HINT: Not as much as if you lived in Iowa) – http://abcn.ws/ypw5dE Obama Album – The Weight is a Weird Campaign Song – http://abcn.ws/AjHk7g DeMint Says it Could go to the Convention; Perry Teases Another R
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Unless you are an inside-the-beltway campaign consultant or you have been living an oblivious life, you most likely stand with the rest of the American electorate in being increasingly disgusted with the negative tone that the Republican candidates for P
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The entire article by Albert Hunt is possibly a bit too snide about various Republicans, but this part is at least on-point about Obama’s behavior at the annual Alfalfa Club dinner: Obama hates such dinners. Some of his aides, in particular his political
About David Plouffe
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David Plouffe (pronounced /plʌf/, born 1967 ) is an American political strategist best known as the chief campaign manager for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign in the United States. A long-time Democratic Party campaign consultant, he is a partner at the party-aligned campaign consulting firm AKP&D Message and Media, which he joined in... Full Article
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DENVER, CO - SEPTEMBER 27: U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar speaks with senior advisor to the President David Plouffe before President Obama addressed Coloradans about his $447 billion jobs plan at Abraham Lincoln High School on September 27, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. Obama accepted...
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney (L) and senior adviser David Plouffe (R) walk to the Marine One helicopter to depart with U.S. President Barack Obama for a trip to Washington State, California and Colorado, from the White House in Washington September 25, 2011.
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WASHINGTON - JULY 7: In this handout provided by the White House, President Barack Obama (L) talks with members of his staff (L-R) Chief of Staff Bill Daley, Rob Nabors, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, Bruce Reed, Chief of Staff to the Vice President, National...
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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 31: In this handout from NBC NewsWire, David Plouffe, White House Senior Adviser, appears on NBC's 'Meet the Press' July 31, 2011 in Washington, DC. Plouffe has been speaking about possible agreement to raise the U.S. debt ceiling.
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US President Barack Obama (R) speaks with Senior Advisor David Plouffe as he returns to the White House in Washington, DC, January 13, 2012.
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WASHINGTON - JULY 22: White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley (L), White House Press Secretary Jay Carney (2L) and Senior Advisor David Plouffe (2R) listen while President Barack Obama speaks to the media in the briefing room of the White House July 22, 2011 in Washington, DC. Obama...
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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 11: White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe listens to U.S. President Barack Obama during a news conference at the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House July 11, 2011 in Washington, DC. Obama discussed the ongoing budget and debit limit negotiations with...
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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 29: (L-R) White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, Deputy White House Communications Director Jen Psaki, Senior Advisor to the President David Plouffe and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney listen to U.S. President Barack Obama during a news...
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President Barack Obama, right, embraces his campaign manager David Plouffe, left, at a DNC fundraiser at Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco, Calif. , Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Stepping away from Washington's contentious fiscal debates, President Barack Obama is making a West...
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US President Barack Obama is greeted by political strategist and advisor David Plouffe (L) after his introduction on April 20, 2011 during a Democratic National Committee (DNC) fundraiser at Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco.
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CHICAGO, IL - APRIL 14: Senior White House Advisor David Plouffe speaks to supporters of U.S. President Barack Obama during a campaign fundraiser at Navy Pier April 14, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. The event was one of three fundraisers the president attended today in Chicago to help...
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White House Senior adviser David Plouffe blows kisses as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 14, 2011, as he accompanies President Barack Obama to Chicago.
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White House senior advisers David Plouffe, right, and Valerie Jarrett, walk across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 14, 2011, as they accompany President Barack Obama to Chicago.
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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 16: David Plouffe, Senior White House Advisor, introduces U.S. President Barack Obama during a DNC meeting on March 16, 2011 in Washington, DC. As his second fundraising event of the week, Obama spoke to members of the DNC's national advisory board and finance...
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US President Barack Obama greets senior advisor and former campaign manager David Plouffe (L) during a Democratic National Committee (DNC) event in Washington, DC, March 16, 2011.
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US Press Secretary Jay Carney (R) speaks with President Barack Obama adviser David Plouffe as they make their way to Marine One as Obama departs the White House in Washington on March 8, 2011 for Boston where he will deliver a speech on education and attend a fundraiser.
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama's political advisor David Plouffe are pictured as Obama visits the Whiteside County Fair in Morrison, Illinois, August 17, 2011. Obama is on a mid-west bus trip through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.
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In this image released by NBC's Meet the Press, White House adviser David Plouffe appears on NBC's "Meet the Press" in Washington, Sunday, July 31, 2011. The U.S. Senate plunged on Sunday into what many lawmakers, the White House, and millions of Americans hoped would be an...
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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 11: (L-R) White House Chief of Staff William Daley, Press Secretary Jay Carney, Senior Advisor David Plouffe and Communications Director Daniel Pfeiffer listen to U.S. President Barack Obama during a news conference at the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White...
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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 11: (L-R) White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe and Communications Director Daniel Pfeiffer listen to U.S. President Barack Obama during a news conference at the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House July 11, 2011 in Washington, DC. Obama discussed the...
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President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 11, 2011, as, from left, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, senior adviser David Plouffe, and Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, look on.
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, left, and senior adviser David Plouffe walk towards the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 15, 2011, as they returned with President Barack Obama after a trip to Chicago.
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In this photo released by NBC, David Plouffe, White House Senior Adviser, is interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press" in Washington Sunday, April 10, 2011. Plouffe said President Barack Obama will lay out new plans this week to reduce the federal deficit in part by seeking cuts to...
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In this photo released by FOX, White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe talks about the averted government shutdown on FOX News Sunday in Washington Sunday, April 10, 2011.
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U.S. President Barack Obama gets a hug from senior advisor David Plouffe as he arrives to speak at a DNC event in Washington, March 16, 2011.
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DENVER, CO - SEPTEMBER 27: U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar speaks with senior advisor to the President David Plouffe before President Obama addressed Coloradans about his $447 billion jobs plan at Abraham Lincoln High School on September 27, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. Obama accepted...
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