Age:
37
Campaign manager, Mitt Romney for President
Rhoades has been a diligently low-key, data-oriented operator at the helm of the Romney campaign, just like his boss. An opposition researcher by training, Rhoades is credited internally with keeping the team disciplined through a sprawling primary season. He remains the go-to guy on matters both picayune and profound, so he could expect a major portfolio in a Romney administration -- and more attention, whether he wants it or not.
--T.N.
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