February 2, 2009 - Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe 13 Days After the Inauguration

"You cannot understand who he is, who we were as a campaign, without understanding how improbable all of this was," David Plouffe, manager of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, told an audience at DePauw University. "There has never been a bigger political upset in modern political history, maybe in all of political history. It's hard to reconcile that with now he's on the stage, he's been elected president, he's serving as our president -- but 2 years ago this seemed like something that would have the lowest of odds and a lot of things would have to happen right."

Just thirteen days after the inauguration of President Obama, Plouffe discussed "Leadership Lessons from a Presidential Campaign Manager" in a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture.