Is this man the future of politics?  Thomas Gensemer
masterminded Barack Obama's groundbreaking and astonishingly
successful online presidential campaign. Could he help Gordon
Brown at the next election? He thinks so, as he tells Stephen
Moss and Sarah Phillips  Barack Obama wasn't the only winner in
November's presidential election. Thomas Gensemer, whose company
Blue State Digital managed Obama's slick online campaign, built
his website, recruited 13.5 million supporters and raised $500m
for the Obama campaign, is also doing very nicely out of the
victory. As he arrives in London to open a UK office and try to
entice the Labour party into his electronic embrace for the next
election, he admits it's a handy "calling card" to have.
Gensemer is a thin, crop-haired, ultra-driven 31-year-old who
talks so fast you have to slow the tape down to transcribe what
he says. Here, you sense, in the basement of the Freud
Communications building in central London - all asymmetrical
furniture and obligatory brightly colou