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David Axelrod and Mike Murphy

David Axelrod is the director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, a CNN Senior Political Commentator, and the author of Believer: My Forty Years in Politics. Mike Murphy, a veteran Republican media consultant who led campaigns for more than two dozen GOP governors and senators.

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