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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.

Mixing It Up

By Marc Ambinder
Jan 21 2008, 8:44 PM ET Comment

The candidates tend to explain their policy decisions using short tern and the lingua franca of the Senate, which makes it hard to referee these disputes. So the candidates who refuse to jump in usually wind up looking better. And John Edwards is looking better.

BTW: this is the first time Obama's "present" votes have been brought up in a Democratic debate...something the Clinton campaign has been flaying for months.

Obama is under the heaviest scrutiny tonight... Edwards seems him as the thing standing between himself and Clinton.... Clinton wants to start a longer conversation in the Feb. 5 states about whether Obama is all hat and no cattle.

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