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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.

Democrats Say Their Voters Are Being Urged To Show Up This Saturday

By Marc Ambinder
Jan 17 2008, 12:57 PM ET Comment

Carol Khare Fowler, the chairperson of the South Carolina Democratic Party, didn't think she'd have to hold a press conference to inform Democrats to vote in the Democratic primary.

But that was before party officials received queries from confused Democrats yesterday.

It seems that hundreds of them received phone messages urging them to show up THIS Saturday and vote, and that the Democratic and Republican primaries would both be held on the same day.

(Not true, of course: The GOP votes this Saturday and the Democrats vote next Saturday, and if you vote in one primary, you can't vote in another.)

Someone is playing a dirty trick.

A sign of the times: instead of following the roadshow to Nevada, the Romney campaign is keeping its chief counsel, Ben Ginsberg, in South Carolina in case there are any last minute shenanigans.

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