Rolling Stone gives a run down of Obama's immediate circle of power. The key player? David Axelrod. Again:

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David Axelrod

, who ran the president's campaign,

sits even closer to Obama than Rove did to Bush; he is the only

senior adviser with his own door to Obama's office. "It conveys

that Axelrod is involved not only in communicating the president's

positions but in formulating them," says a top veteran of the Obama

campaign.