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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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The Harkin Steak Fry

By Marc Ambinder

Aug 21 2007, 8:12 AM ET Comment

Last year, Sen. Barack Obama rocked Tom Harkin's annual Steak Fry fundraiser in Indianaola, as 3,000+ Iowans screamed, cheered, cried and begged for him to run for president. The year before, Bill Clinton was the guest.

So a topic of speculation has been who Harkin would get to host this year's extravaganza -- his 30th. All of the party superstars are running for president. It wouldn't be fair to invite just one of them.

So...

This year our special guests include Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Barack Obama, Senator John Edwards, Senator Joe Biden, Senator Chris Dodd, and Governor Bill Richardson


Well, there you go. September 16 will be the first major post Labor Day cattle call for Democrats. But wait -- No Kucinich? No Gravel?

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