He is credited with the campaign's successful overall strategy in the race (primarily against then-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. Plouffe was the campaign manager for Obama's successful 2008 presidential campaign. Roth.Ģ008 Barack Obama presidential campaign Oberly's unsuccessful campaign against Senator William V. In 1994 Plouffe managed Delaware Attorney General Charles M. In the same year, he successfully managed Congressman John Olver's first re-election bid in Massachusetts. He later worked as a state field director for Harkin's unsuccessful 1992 Presidential campaign. Plouffe began his political career by working for Senator Tom Harkin's 1990 re-election campaign. He left the University of Delaware prior to graduating in 1989 to pursue a full-time career in politics, and he completed his full undergraduate degree in May 2010. He is from a working-class Roman Catholic family (he is now an Episcopalian), the son of Frances (née Vincent), a stay-at-home mother, and James Everett "Jim" Plouffe, a factory worker who later worked in marketing. Plouffe was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware.
In 2019, POLITICO reported he joined the Board of Directors of liberal nonprofit ACRONYM, where he would advise an anti-Trump digital campaign. In January 2017, he joined the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to lead the policy and advocacy efforts of the initiative. In May 2015, he left that role to become a full-time strategic adviser for the company. In September 2014, he became the Senior Vice President of Policy and Strategy for Uber. Plouffe was an outside senior advisor to Obama since the president's first day in office and was then appointed as a Senior Advisor to the President (inside the White House) in 2011 following the resignation of David Axelrod, who went on to start Obama's reelection campaign. A long-time Democratic Party campaign consultant, he was a partner at the party-aligned campaign consulting firm AKPD Message and Media, which he joined in 2000. David Plouffe ( / ˈ p l ʌ f/ born May 27, 1967) is an American political and business strategist best known as the campaign manager for Barack Obama's successful 2008 presidential campaign.
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