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BREAKOUT STARS of 2008

You may not have heard of them in 2007. Now just try to imagine your world without them.

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DAVID PLOUFFE Barack Obama would never have become the Man if David Plouffe, his 41-year-old campaign manager, hadn’t built the Machine. With a swarming ground game, staggering online fundraising skills, and a gift for working those Excel sheets, Plouffe changed the equation for how to get elected.

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