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Like an emerging start-up business, Obama's presidential campaign has grown from just a few advisers last December to one that boasts about 100 employees in Chicago alone, part of a national staff now totaling roughly 200. His staff includes key veterans of the 2004 John Kerry campaign as well as a co-founder of the social networking Web site Facebook.
After initially setting up shop in temporary space a few floors up, the headquarters staff is settling in at 233 N. Michigan Ave. They occupy the entire 11th floor -- more than 33,000 square feet -- with plenty of room to grow.
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You can get a decent day in on the West Coast and still be home in time for dinner," she said. "I can explain a long day
if the end result is dinner and bedtime with the girls."
His Secret Service detail, assigned last month, has helped with some logistics. The agents are able to move him more quickly in and out of buildings, saving a few minutes here and there.
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One of its key employees is a 23-year-old. Chris Hughes, the campaign's "online organizer," also has the unofficial title of guy worth the most money (at least on paper). He co-founded Facebook, the hot social networking site. The experience gives him serious dot-com credentials for using the Internet to organize voters, donors and volunteers.
"This is the cycle where it's really going to matter," he said. "The Internet and politics at a historic point."
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