David Alexrod, top political strategist to President Obama, is announcing Thursday that he will start a politics institute once the 2012 presidential campaign wraps up.
The institute, mimicking Harvard’s Kennedy School, will be a part of University of Chicago, Alexrod’s alma mater.
Alexrod told the Chicago Tribune he always planned to make such a transition and end his career as a political consultant and campaign strategist. He said he wanted to encourage students “who are going to be the David Axelrods and better.”
Programming will begin in 2013, and, in a video on the University of Chicago’s web site, Axelrod says the outside-Washington location will give students a better taste of how politics works.
“Urban politics is generally a more visceral politics than national politics. The decisions you make, you can see the impact of them immediately,” Axelrod said.
Axelrod says the re-election campaign will be his last campaign.
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