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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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Quick Thoughts On Crist's Endorsement

By Marc Ambinder

Jan 27 2008, 9:02 AM ET Comment

A few thoughts: Crist is very popular in Florida, but he is NOT popular with conservative activists who (correctly) think he governs like a moderate Democrat.

He IS popular with rank-and-file Republicans, though...

This is not an inconsequential endorsement..

This also erases McCain's misleading attack on Romney from the headlines....

Rudy Giuliani, who arguably pandered to Crist by supporting his national catastrophic insurance fund, was holding out hope that he'd get the endorsement...

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