David Plouffe - In the News with Jeff Greenfield

Barack Obama’s election and re-election as the first African-American president marked a turning point in America—and the force behind it all was campaign mastermind David Plouffe.

Credited by President Obama with building the best political campaign “in the history of the United States,” the former Obama campaign manager and senior adviser will join PBS’s Jeff Greenfield to take you inside the most recent campaign. How did Plouffe devise a strategy for Obama’s re-election in the face of a sluggish economy, the rise of Super PACs and an unexpectedly weak first debate performance? Make sure to join us for a night that takes you behind the campaign scenes.