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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.

The God-o-Meter

By Marc Ambinder
Sep 27 2007, 12:44 PM ET Comment

Totally unscientific, provocative and slightly, deliciously offensive, Beliefnet's new God-o-Meter judges the candidates on a scale ranging form the theocratic to the secular.

This week, Mitt Romney scores an 8 out of 10, where "10" represents a theocrat of the Rousas John Rushdoony variety. and Bill Richardson, having decreed that God wants Iowa to go first, is right up there.

To get a zero, by the way, you'd have to channel Christopher Hitchens blasting Mother Theresa. The most secular Democrat: Chris Dodd. The most secular Republicans: Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson.

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