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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.

A Surrogate Debate Worth Watching

By Marc Ambinder
Jul 24 2007, 10:47 AM ET Comment

Surrogates debates can be very boring, but here's one worth paying attention to: the Center for U.S. Global Engagement launches its 2008 presidential effort today and the marquee event is a debate among foreign policy surrogates for the major presidential campaigns. Often, these surrogates speak more freely than the candidate.

Rep. Frank McGovern is speaking for Sen. Hillary Clinton. Rep. Brad Miller is speaking for Sen. John Edwards, Rep. Adam Smith is speaking for Sen. Barack Obama, Rep. Mark Udall is speaking for Gov. Bill Richardson, Rep. Peter King is speaking for Rudy Giuliani, Rep. Dan Lungren is speaking for Sen. John McCain, Rep and Pete Hoekstra is speaking for Mitt Romney.

Moderators include Gerry Seib of the Wall Street Journal and Walter Pincus of the Washington Post.

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