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  Desperate stuff...?.........did Boris turn the job down ?
  
  Courtesy Independent...........
  
  Can this man turn David Cameron into the British Obama? Tories hire Jim Messina, the mastermind
  
  behind the President's re-election
  
  The former deputy chief of staff at the White House was once described as the 'most powerful
  
  person in Washington you've never heard of'
  
  An American elections expert who masterminded Barack Obama's successful campaign to retain
  
  office has been hired by the Conservative Party to help David Cameron achieve the same feat,
  
  the party has announced.
  
  The Tories will be advised over the next two years by Jim Messina, a former deputy chief of staff
  
  at the White House and Mr Obama's campaign manager last year.
  
  He was a key figure behind the Democrats' development of sophisticated campaigning
  
  techniques to reach crucial groups of electors and the targeted use of social media to get key
  
  messages across to voters.
  
  Mr Messina is a revered figure in US political circles and was once described by the White
  
  House communications director as the "most powerful person in Washington you've never heard of".
  
  His recruitment, which is being viewed as a major coup by the party, will come as a surprise
  
  given the historic links between the Conservatives and the Republicans.
  
  But Mr Obama's ability to assemble a winning coalition of voters in two elections appealed to
  
  senior Tories who know they face an uphill struggle to achieve an overall Commons majority
  
  after the next election in May 2015.
  
  The President also managed to be re-elected against a backdrop of economic gloom.

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