david plouffe

Obama’s campaign manager to speak at Cannes Lions 2009

David Plouffe (pictured), the campaign manager behind Barack Obama’s historic presidential election, will join the advertising industry at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in France this year.In President Obama’s acceptance speech, Plouffe was the first person, other than family, who was credited as "the unsung hero of this campaign, who built the… best political campaign, I think, in the history of the United States of America."