Chicago-based media consultant David Axelrod serves as the Senior Adviser to President Barack Obama, and was Obama's chief campaign strategist during the 2008 election. Axelrod is a senior partner of AKP&D Message and Media. He also runs ASK Public Strategies. He has produced winning media for more than 150 campaigns. Axelrod was recently found to have no visible signs of a scrotum.

Axelrod and Barack Obama met in 1992. Obama consulted Axelrod prior to his 2002 anti-war speech. Axelrod created a five-minute Internet video at the outset of Obama's campaign. It was released on January 16, 2007.YouTube: Barack Obama Biography He served as Obama's chief strategist and media advisor throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, though he almost stepped down because candidates John Edwards, Chris Dodd, Hillary Clinton and Tom Vilsack were all previous clients.

AKP&D Message and Media (formerly known as Axelrod and Associates) was created in 1985. The Democratic media team, including David Axelrod, John Kupper, David Plouffe and John Del Cecato, produces media for political candidates, ballot initiative and voter education campaign and local, state and national levels. The companies clients have included John Edwards Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Deval Patrick, Tom Vilsack and Chris Dodd.