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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Humility

By Marc Ambinder

Nov 2 2010, 9:04 PM ET Comment

In 2008, a New Orleans funeral procession cling-clanged through Studio 47 here at CBS. The Republican Party was dead. It would take at least several cycles before it returned. Obama had won a mandate, and we were pretty sure that people would endorse a more activist government. After all, that's what Obama ran on. Such hubris. So we should be wary of hubristic projections tonight. Clearly, a dead party can revivify in two years provided the energy in the electorate is there.

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