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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.

The Daily Bam Bam Bigelow

By Marc Ambinder
Jun 21 2007, 7:10 PM ET Comment

Tomorrow morning, Sen. Obama delivers a speech on reforming the govenrment. This may step a bit on Hillary Clinton's "Walk It To Win It" weekend in New Hampshire.

Chuck Todd on Clinton:

The Clintons would have rallied the base in '04 in a way that they may not be able to rally in '08. If she comes up short in '08, I have no doubt there will be second-guessing among some Clinton partisans that maybe she ran in the wrong year.


Chuck's argument is that Clinton isn't radical enough for primary voters and isn't seen as enough of a change agent for general election voters. Not sure whether I agree or disagree.

BTW: it's cool of HillaryHub to feature a story that mentions the unmentionables.

The vice president's office does not believe it's in the executive branch, apparently. So just whose powers has Dick Cheney been fighting for all these years?

Former ABC Newser v. former ABC Newser. I'm not touching this one.

A blog war in South Carolina? Obama, Romney and Laurin Manning.

Soren Dayton on the upshot of the timeline for passage of an immigration bill:

The upshot is that the GOP candidates are going to get drilled on this through the primary season. It is clear what they would all like. After all, just one year ago, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Huckabee all expressed support for solutions to the Senate bill. Only John McCain and Sam Brownback have had the courage of their convictions. The GOP candidates want to rail against the bill and have it pass.Then they get their private policy preference and an issue.


George Allen endorses Fred Thompson

Black holes can't form.

Scientists have nothing against journalists...except for the fact that we're journalists.

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