The political version of Ari Gold?

Newsweek profiles Rahm Emanuel, Chair of the DCCC and keynote speaker at yesterday's Ohio Democratic Party State Convention.

The magazine finds that he shares a lot of traits with his Hollywood agent brother, Ari Emanuel, believed to be the inspiration for the Ari Gold character on the HBO show "Entourage".

Emanuel's own Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is now roughly even with its GOP counterpart—a position it hasn't enjoyed for a decade. And there is evidence that the Red to Blue Program is working: Democratic candidates are even or ahead in fund-raising in most of the races that neutral observers regard as competitive.

Read the entire article here:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14871152/site/newsweek/from/RS.3/

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[chris holm]

If we do this right we can win back the re-apportionment board WE Democrats must campaign hard. SMART, SHARP, OUT SMART THE REPUBLICANS. I WANT THE RE DISTRICTING BOARD IN 2012. THAT WAY WE CAN HAVE MODERATE DEMOCRAT'S IN THE STATE LEGESTLATURE. I agree with Vern Riffe.

[chris holm]

Pragmatism Democrat in 2006 Mark Warner for President in 2008.