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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.

Why The NRLC Endorsement Is Not Terrible For Mitt Romney

By Marc Ambinder
Nov 12 2007, 4:14 PM ET Comment

It's great for Thompson -- but it's not all that bad for Mitt Romney. Consider:

(1) Mike Huckabee didn't get it. And Romney's campaign sees Huckabee as a bigger threat in Iowa right now than Fred Thompson.

(2) Because Thompson is going to have to answer a lot of abortion questions over the next few days -- and Thompson is not comfortable answering questions about abortion. And Mitt Romney is getting more comfortable.

I initially wrote it was "good" for Romney. But it's not good. It's just not that bad.

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