David Axelrod is a political analyst for CNN, and the former senior advisor to President Barack Obama. He is the author of Believer: My Forty Years in Politics, which was published in September 2011. Axelrod graduated from Columbia University with a degree in economics and spent the next four years working at one of Wall Street’s largest firms while also raising two children. He then moved to Chicago to serve as chief of staff for U.S
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Representative Tony Coelho of Illinois, where he worked on health care reform before becoming chief political strategist for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. He served as Democratic National Committee chairman from 1997 to 1999, and he also served on the board of directors for several investment banks and securities companies.