Mr Messina, before a White House Deputy Chief of staff, the President is running campaign for re-election, which formally opens its doors in a high-rise building in Chicago this week, and file the paperwork for Mr Obama begin campaign to accept contributions.
Mr Messina traded a windowless view in the West Wing for a spacious Office overlooking the Park, where Mr Obama of his historic victory speech.
It is his responsibility to ensure that the President 6, 2012 is another in November.
Run a presidential campaign is a grueling task. Even before Mr Obama announced his intentions – he plans, already on Monday in a message, was occupied by supporters to do - Mr. Messina fund-raisers, courting the top tier of which are required to raise $350,000.
But in this case the job with an additional challenge comes: the first attempt of the re-election of one established monitoring of far outside Washington, are run separately by the candidates of both distance and focus.
Movement, said Mr. Messina, is not only symbolic. It allows the campaign to distrusting the clatter of the capital and focus on policy, without the requirements of governance to juggle to optimize. And there will be supporters whose Begeisterung was in 2008 Mr Messina and his team closer to the grassroots.
"The President and I discussed the challenges - and there are challenges," he said. "But I want people in the Chicago Central, the life and sleep and food and re-electing Barack Obama as President to breathe."
For the first half of the term of Office of the President, Mr. Messina, 41, was a universal problem solver with a portfolio that was enough to push dinner to examine health care legislation by the Congress of Party Crashers in the State. Now he will oversee what could be the first billion dollar campaign.
But Mr Messina will sell one incumbent, which no longer easily even when the face of the changing positions. And he is in a far more hostile political climate, with surveys to suggesting, that significant convince moderate and independent voters will be running again in large numbers to vote democratic.
"I really think that the President is the art and science am," said Mr Messina. "You have to start with the assumption that this not 2008 again."
A morning in the last week he appeared from a taxi, and in the lobby of one prudential Plaza. He had marked abandoned his West wing credentials "Tenants" for an inconspicuous badge.
The central room is bare. At the moment there is no Obama signs or posters, only a paper bag filled with Office supplies, and a stack of cards from the American Automobile Association, that an early reference to the battlefields of State make available.
"It is too early to look at the stuff," said Mr. Messina, a seat in an empty cabin. "If you look at the new census numbers, you would think that Georgia would be in the game." You would definitely think that Arizona would be in the game - as I think it is. "These are States where we recently play not."
One reason for the he explores new territory is the difficult way in some States, the Lord of Obama in the year 2008, such as Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia, which saw that large Republican gains in the last year.
The distance between Washington and Chicago raises about questions whether decisions are made here or in the White House, is where David Plouffe, the last campaign manager, now a senior consultant, and William M. Daley, the Chairman of Al Gore's presidential campaign, the now Chief of staff, are available to the President.
"We are, where appropriate, coordinated, but they go to the campaign," said Mr. Plouffe. "they go to innovate and make what we apparently some prehistoric in the year 2008".
Leave tour, donors and activists in almost two dozen cities since the White House two months ago, Mr Messina listening to one to visit. The private sessions aimed at improving frayed relations, in particular some liberal groups, and reconnecting with supporters.
The slide show presents he shows how the President has approval in States such as Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. He shows a video of potential Republican Challengers, including representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, a popular figure in the tea party movement, and Jon Huntsman Jr., Governor of Utah, who will step down as Ambassador to China.
"If all you do is to not raise the money you" Mr Messina said several top donors.
In an interview on a lunch Steak Salad and several glasses of Pepsi Mr Messina said, that he an artistic of President messaging on health care, extension of the Bush-era tax cuts and error close the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"We're Democrats!" Mr Messina responded when asked whether he was surprised by the criticism. "Beginning this agreement heard people only hearing out there."
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