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Bob has been an active participant in politics all of his adult life. His career began at the age of 18 upon entering George Washington University. His employment with Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) began in 1967 during Bob's freshman year and concluded with Bayh's unsuccessful reelection campaign in 1980 against Dan Quayle. Those 13 years saw Bob rise from volunteer worker to Office Manager to Executive Assistant in the Senate Office. His campaign experience with Bayh began by traveling with the candidate throughout the 1974 reelection campaign, continued with a variety of responsibilities in the 1976 Presidential campaign and, finally, Political Director of the 1980 campaign. Also during this period, Bob completed his B.A. in Political Science and his M.A. in Legislative Affairs at George Washington University. After the 1980 defeat, he founded a political action committee, The Committee for American Principles, an organization seeking to combat the growing role and influence of the New Right in political campaigns. He began his career providing political computer services in 1982, eventually joining with and starting the Washington Office of Below, Tobe & Associates. During the two plus decades he has worked in this area of politics, his clients have included the Dukakis for President Campaign, both Clinton/Gore Campaigns, the Gore/Lieberman and the Kerry/Edwards campaigns, hundreds of campaigns at every level and state Democratic Parties in 30 states. Early in 1991 Bob created Blaemire Communications offering new techniques to those clients who use large databases. In 2003 Blaemire began offering Leverage, an online voter file system. Leverage allows the user to access their data and produce counts from any portion instantly, a capability Blaemire sees as uniquely valuable to political clients. Bob is married to Joanna Caplan and has two sons, Nick and Dan. | 