Naftali Bendavid is deputy campaign editor for The Washington Post. He was a former Congressional reporter for The Wall Street Journal; correspondent for the Chicago Tribune; as well as a reporter for the Miami Herald and Legal Times. He is author of The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution. He also edited Obama: The Essential Guide to the Democratic Nominee. Bendavid graduated from Columbia University in 1985 with a BA in political science, and has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.