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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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Huckabee's Second Ad Focus On Faith

By Marc Ambinder

Nov 26 2007, 8:16 AM ET Comment



His faith, Mike Huckabee says, defines him. The words "Christian Leader" flash across the screen. Huckabee is shown saying: "Let Us Never Sacrifice Our Interests For Anybody's Politics"....

Subtle it is not. But it's what you've got to do. A silent irony: that "let us never sacrifice" line is targeted at Rudy Giuliani, in whose interest it is for Huckabee to do well in Iowa. So the Giuliani campaign probably, silently, welcomes a Huckabee advertisement that focuses on faith and values.

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