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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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Another Reason Why Bloomberg Hurts The Democrat

By Marc Ambinder

Jun 21 2007, 2:46 PM ET Comment

A smart Democratic strategist e-mails:

"I can’t see how [as Bloomberg run] doesn’t hurt the Democrat, just be making us spend big in expensive Northeastern states. It seems like it kills HRC."

Where in the South can Bloomberg reasonably expect to win? How does he get to 270 electoral votes? What type of coalition can he build that would allow him to, in absence of a 270-electoral vote margin, win a contested election in the House of Representatives?

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