But the summer vacation itinerary that closely resembles a Super-Tuesday swing is n’t the only reason political watchers think the social network pioneer may try his hand at politics. Mark Zuckerberg also recently hired former Clinton pollster Joel Benenson to work at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a charitable foundation the CEO runs with his wife, which already has former Obama campaign guru David Plouffe on the payroll. You don’t tend to hire pollsters unless you want to know what people are thinking, so my guess is the pollster is helping him understand the American people.

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