A Conversation with David Axelrod and Jonathan Alter

Former Senior Advisor to President Obama and Director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago David Axelrod Reflects on the 2012 Campaign with Award-winning Political Journalist and Author Jonathan Alter

Hosted by: Cynthia Heusing and David Kistenbroker

Date: May 15, 2013

David Axelrod former Democratic political consultant, served as the senior strategist for President Obamas successful campaigns in 2008 and 2012. He worked in the White House as Senior Advisor to the President from January 2009 until February 2011. Prior to serving as a strategist for the Obama Campaign, Mr. Axelrods ASK Public Strategies (now called ASGK Public Strategies), served more than 150 local, state, and national campaigns. David Axelrod will next serve as the inaugural Director of the new Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago.

Jonathan Altercolumnist forBloomberg View,analyst and contributing correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, is a former senior editor and columnist forNewsweek, where he worked twenty-eight years, writing more than fifty cover stories. Mr. Alter has also written forThe New York Times,The Washington Post,The Atlantic,and more. He is the author ofNew York Timesbestsellers The Promise: President Obama, Year OneandThe Defining Moment: FDRs Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.