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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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Mitt $$ Spin

By Marc Ambinder

Jan 10 2008, 10:26 AM ET Comment

There's a difference between raising $5M for the primary and raising $3.5M for the general and $1.5M for the primary.

For one thing -- you can return the unused general election money if you don't make it to the nomination.

So -- and I'm not trying to be smarmy marmy here, it's probably fairly easy for Romney's supporters to fork up a donation they anticipate getting back.

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