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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.

Romney Returns To The Air

By Marc Ambinder
Aug 29 2007, 10:26 AM ET Comment

Ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, which took down its TV ads early last week to save money before Labor Day, will be back on the air on network affiliate stations by Thursday.

According to a rival campaign media buyer, Romney's campaign placed orders for approximately 200 to 350 gross ratings points worth of ads in Iowa markets, 250 gross ratings points on WMUR in New Hampshire and 150 GRPS in other New Hampshire markets.

GRPs are calculated by multiplying a spot's reach by the number of times it airs. If a spot airs on televison programs that reach 30 percent of Des Moines viewers five times, the campaign would have purchased about 150 GRPS. Generally, 1000 GRPS constitutes market saturation.

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