article_snippet.sent: Advisor: David Axelrod (right) masterminded two presidential election victories for Obama (left).
article_snippet.sent: two presidential election victories for Barack Obama (left) are pictured together in February 2008 on a campaign aircraft in Idaho, nine months before Labour leader Ed Miliband first win .
article_snippet.sent: David Axelrod: Two presidential triumphs in the US .
article_snippet.sent: Behind David Axelrod's won fame in the US after helping to convince Americans to pick Americans first black president in 2008 and then helped Barack Obama's re-election four years later.
article_snippet.sent: But the two presidential triumphs are only the highest profile in a string of Democrat successes that have made the 60-year-old New Yorker a back room political superstar.
article_snippet.sent: It began 30 years ago when, fresh from quitting his job as the youngest ever political editor of the Chicago Tribune, his helped oust a three-term Republican senator for Illinois.
article_snippet.sent: Three years later, his was a key member of the team that helped re-elect Chicago's first black mayor Harold Washington.
highlights_snippet.sent: David Axelrod masterminded two Obama presidential election victories .
  