2007 Newsweek article

When Frances Haugen left Iowa for California, she figured she would never get to see a presidential candidate up close again. But since taking a job at Google a year ago, Haugen has been courted in person by John McCain, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton and Bill Richardson. On Wednesday, it was Barack Obama's turn to woo the 23-year-old product manager—and 1,500 of her fellow "Googlers" in a standing-room-only crowd at the company's Mountain View campus.

Frances Haugen, the Iowan who joined Google, worked as an organizer for Howard Dean there in 2004. She hopes to share with the Obama campaign this time around some of her ideas for decentralized coordination of online advertising.

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