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Born on August 21, 1966 in Baltimore, Maryland, Ken Mehlman is currently managing director for Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts and Co LLP and a former campaign manager for George W. Bush’s re-election campaign in 2004. He is known for his loyalty to the Bush-Cheney campaign and admired by Republican Party groups for his effective and low profile leadership.

During the 2006 general election season, when a Washington Post-ABC News poll showed that 55% of United States voters planned to vote in opposition to incumbents, Ken Mehlman, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, was not as anxious as the other Republicans for he had encountered difficulties like these before. He assured party insiders that superior association and the Republican’s voter vault would carry the day. Voter vaults are for supporting a political party or a politician in their GOTV (get out the vote) endeavors and in areas like fundraising, issue tracking and recruitment.

For that election, he instilled Voter Vault with a new and more robust technology that would assist in vote-getting strategies that were, at that time, under wraps. During that election, under George W. Bush’s administration, Mehlman altered the message of the party into a more inclusive and positive one.

In addition, what he did during the said election, technologically and in terms of developing the party, was considered revolutionary. Republican strategist Brad Blakeman said that Ken Mehlman was not one to flaunt his achievements with the media. He describes Mehlman as being “modest to a fault,” and a person who “loves to be underestimated.”