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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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Why Thompson Said "Yes" To A Cancelled Debate

By Marc Ambinder

Sep 18 2007, 3:03 PM ET Comment

Yesterday, I wrote about the debates ex-Sen. Fred Thompson has decided to attended. One of them, per the campaign, was scheduled for October 14 and sponsored by ABC News and WMUR.

Turns out that ABC News cancelled that debate a while ago, preferring to focus on others -- possibly because the GOP candidates were slow in accepting invitations.

"ABC News hosted the August debates moderated by George Stephanopoulos and will host January debates moderated by Charles Gibson," ABC's Andrea Jones e-mails. "At this point, the Thompson campaign has not called to officially accept any of the debates we are hosting this cycle."

Thompson's spokesman, Todd Harris, said today that ABC News never announced that the debate had been cancelled. He said that if ABC reinstated the October 14 debate, Thompson would be happy to participate.

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