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Robert Gibbs has been influencing the communications strategy of Barack Obama even before the senator emerged on the national scene. Helping run the campaign that got Obama elected to the Senate in 2004, Gibbs has been able to match Obama's strengths as an orator with a savvy communications plan, as well as realizing the public, hungry for change, would seize upon a message that promised it. Gibbs has run a low-emotion campaign, drawing ire from Democrats ...