Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt
Born	Stephen Edward Schmidt 1970 (age 46–47) North Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Delaware, Newark
Political party	Republican

Stephen Edward "Steve" Schmidt (born 1970) is an American campaign strategist and public relations worker for the U.S. Republican Party. He specializes in political "message development and strategy." Schmidt was the senior campaign strategist and advisor to the 2008 presidential campaign of Senator John McCain. He is currently a political analyst for MSNBC and has appeared frequently on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO.

The son of a school teacher and a telecommunications executive, Schmidt grew up in North Plainfield, New Jersey, is an Eagle Scout, a tight end on the high school football team, a two-year member of the National Honor Society, and senior class vice president. In 1988, he was one of two graduating seniors voted "most likely to succeed" by his classmates at North Plainfield High School. He first handed out campaign materials for Democrat Bill Bradley's 1978 Senate campaign.

Schmidt attended the University of Delaware from 1988 through the spring of 1993, majoring in political science. He left three credits short of graduating because he did not pass a math course; Schmidt has said that he has been diagnosed with a learning disability that makes higher math difficult for him. He joined the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, was a member of the campus Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program, and did field work for Republican candidates in Delaware, sometimes wearing campaign buttons to class.

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