Jan.2007
The man whose job it is to manage all the hype about Obama is Chicago political strategist David Axelrod.
http://www.npr.org/2007/01/16/6874423/obama-tests-presidential-waters-with-committee
Other top-echelon Democrats whom Axelrod advised included Patrick Kennedy (congressional campaign in Rhode Island), Rod Blagojevich (gubernatorial campaign in Illinois), Hillary Clinton (2000 U.S. Senate campaign in New York), Eliot Spitzer (2006 gubernatorial campaign in New York), Chris Dodd (U.S. Senate campaign in Connecticut), John Edwards (2004 presidential campaign), and Rahm Emanuel (House of Representatives campaign in 2002). Moreover, Axelrod was Emanuel’s chief political advisor when Emanuel helped stage the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives in 2006.