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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.

Shenanigans In Michigan

By Marc Ambinder
Jan 11 2008, 12:37 PM ET Comment

Markos "Daily Kos" Moulitsas is urging Democrats to vote in the Republican primary for Mitt Romney in the hope of prolonging the Republican contest.

Remember: only HRC is on the ballot in Michigan, although there is a growing movement by supporters of John Edwards and Barack Obama to vote for "uncommitted" to try and deal Clinton a symbolic blow there. (What if she finishes second to uncommitted, like Jimmy Carter did in 1976 in Iowa?)

Already, the secretary of state reports that a large number of the 222,000 absentee ballots are crossovers -- most from Democrats to Republicans, but some, inexplicably, from Republicans to Democrats.

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