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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 Democratic Matryoska

By Marc Ambinder

Sep 26 2007, 9:11 PM ET Comment

Obama answers and draws contrasts with Clinton
Clinton answers
Edwards answers and draws contrasts with Obama and Clinton
Richardson answers and draws contrasts with Edwards, Clinton and Obama
Dodd answers and draws contrasts with Edwards, Clinton, Obama and Richardson. (He'd have all troops out by 2013).
Biden answers and draws contrasts with E,C,O,R. and D. Yes, there IS a political solution. Congress voted to endorse MY political solution today.

The problem with all these nested distinctions is that it's hard for any one distinction or distinguisher to break through.

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