Axelrod to Begin Re-election Campaign Next Year
USA Today reports:
In case you were wondering if President Obama will seek re-election: Top adviser David Axelrod confirmed today he will leave the White House in the first half of next year to start organizing Obama's 2012 campaign.
"Sometime in the spring, late winter, early spring, I'll be going back -- coming back here -- to Chicago and beginning to work on that project," Axelrod told Fox News Sunday today.
Axelrod,who did the interview from his hometown of the Chicago, has often discussed going back to the Windy City to start the president's re-election bid, associates have said. The veteran political consultant ran Obama's successful 2008 presidential campaign.
In the meantime, Axelrod will help Obama prepare for dealing with the new Republican-run U.S. House that opens early next year. The Republicans also picked up six new Senate seats in the Nov. 2 elections.
