by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
This is getting into serious inside baseball territory. Axelrod, as readers might already know, is Barack Obama's chief political consultant. My impression was that the left-of-center political class viewed Axelrod as the best media-and-message consultant on this side of the aisle, after guiding John Edwards to a better-than-expected performance in 2004, then helping Barack Obama, Eliot Spitzer, and Deval Patrick to wins in their statewide campaigns. He's working for Obama's Presidential campaign this cycle, which makes me wonder how it is that Obama has yet to produce an ad that's half as inspirational as this:
