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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.

Crist Hints He Might Endorse

By Marc Ambinder
Jan 24 2008, 8:18 PM ET Comment

Interviewed by Larry Kramer on CNBC, the governor of Florida (lambasted by the Wall Street Journal today as the "allegedly Republican" governor of Florida), said there five more days left between now and the primary and that he hadn't made up his mind.

Maybe John McCain is too kind to force Crist's hand -- McCain was the only one of the presidentials to campaign for him in 2006, and Crist has let McCain know that he hasn't forgotten it.

On the other hand, Rudy Giuliani has embraced Crist's proposal for a national catastrophic insurance fund -- the offense that led to this morning's Journal smackdown.

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