Patrick Ruffini is never far from the place where politics meets technology. Until recently, Ruffini was webmaster for the Bush-Cheney '04 presidential campaign, proudly serving as part of the team that executed the most sophisticated online strategy in political history. At the campaign, Ruffini was responsible for day-to-day website operations, designing creatives to crisply communicate the President's message, and developing special features surrounding major events like the Conventions and Presidential debates. Ruffini also designed and served as chief writer for the campaign's official blog, and managed the campaign's outreach to the blog community.

Prior to arriving at the campaign, Ruffini maintained a political blog which launched in July 2001, back when such sites were still known as "me-zines." Ruffini's work has been cited by The Washington Post, Time magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Fox News Channel, and CNN; he also appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal and contributed to National Review Online to FoxNews.com. RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman has called PatrickRuffini.com "one of the best websites out there with a lot of very interesting, very innovative information," while nationally syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt calls Ruffini "a genuine breakthrough thinker on the blogosphere."

Other professional highlights include Ruffini's year at the Republican National Committee during the successful 2002 midterm election cycle, and the time he spent at the American Enterprise Institute, where he learned how innovative ideas become transformational public policies.

Ruffini graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000, with a B.A. in Diplomatic History and Political Science. Academically, he focused his coursework on American foreign policy and Presidential communication, writing a thesis paper on Ronald Reagan's Cold War leadership that is now on file at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Ruffini worked on numerous campaigns in his four years at Penn, and as chairman of the College Republicans, helped revive the organization with a focus on voter registration and getting every Republican to the polls.

The important 2000 election spurred Ruffini into his study of voting trends in America, seeking to apply scientific rigor to the analysis of precinct-by-precinct election results. His ongoing work in this area is available through the Research section of this web site. Ruffini has also worked for Michael Barone, author of the Almanac of American Politics, developing his personal web site and his official Almanac web site.

Ruffini currently lives in Falls Church, Virginia with his wife and their two cats.