From this week's lengthy New Yorker article about the victorious Barack Obama presidential campaign:
Like many campaign teams, Obama’s was young. The communications department --made up mostly of guys in their twenties and thirties -- had a fraternity-house quality. On weekends, they would often drink beer together and play the video game "Rock Band" at a group house in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. They had been brought up in Democratic politics in the previous two decades with an understanding that the people who worked for Bill and Hillary Clinton were the best operatives in Washington, especially when it came to dealing with the media. They had watched "The War Room," the documentary about the 1992 Clinton campaign, which featured strategists like James Carville and George Stephanopoulos manically responding to every negative story and trying to win every news cycle.
It's not clear if this will affect Obama's video game policy plans.
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