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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.

Bill's Role In A Hillary Clinton Administration

By Marc Ambinder
Sep 19 2007, 3:20 PM ET Comment

Gallup's question: "Would you like to see Bill Clinton play an active role in policy-making in Hillary Clinton's administration, or not?"


Yes: 53
No: 44
No opinion: 3


(518 adults sampled, so the margin of error is +/- 5 points).

This is a weird question, but the answer gets at a point the Clinton campaign likes to make: Democrats would be just fine if Bill Clinton played a larger-than-usual role in a Hillary Clinton administration. I'm discounting the 53% figure here because of the MOE, although my sense is that some of the 44% are HRC supporters who don't want a co-presidency. The rest are probably Republicans and those independents who don't like the Clintons.

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