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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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Another Iteration Of A Doddnovation

By Marc Ambinder

Nov 19 2007, 11:25 AM ET Comment

Today: Barack Obama proposes an "American Opportunity Tax Credit" that would take care of the first $4,000 of the cost of college education, thereby making community college free for those who wanted it.

On Aug. 8, enterprising presidential candidate Chris Dodd unveiled his proposal to "Provide an opportunity for free community college to every American."

He gets no respect, I tell ya, no respect at all.

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