Glazed doughnut destroyed Axelrod’s BlackBerry

A glazed doughnut shut down David Axelrod’s BlackBerry shortly after Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses, according to campaign manager David Plouffe’s new book, The Audacity to Win.

Plouffe and Axelrod were having the “standard road show campaign breakfast — coffee and Dunkin’ Donuts,” when Axelrod said, “I got glazed doughnut in the trackwheel of my BlackBerry and it’s stuck.”

Plouffe notes Axelrod was “legendary within the campaign for spilling food and mishaps with electronic gadgets.” Still, he writes, it had to be the first “death by glazed doughnut.”

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