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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.

The Fox News Debate

By Marc Ambinder
Jan 6 2008, 9:20 PM ET Comment

I didn't watch it, having been occupied trying to chase down a story that turned out to be false, so here is an amalgam of the best from the other political blogs:

** Mitt Romney comes out of the debate swinging, early on.

He asked Huckabee: ""Did you raise taxes in your state by half-a-billion dollars?" He later said: "Mike you make up facts faster than you talk, and that says something."

When Huckabee said his tax hikes had "raised jobs," Romney "nailed him."

Huckabee seemed to get a little frustrated.

** John McCain took a shot at the experience of governors...

** ABC noticed that the Fox News crawl noted that Giuliani lives with his "current" wife. (As opposed to living with a former wife.)

** How much does Romney sound like Barack Obama here?
"[McCain is] an agent of change, and worked hard to bring change to certain areas, but Washington is fundamentally broken and one of the reasons I'm running for president, i believe that my lifetime of work in the private sector and in the voluntary sector and as a governor has taught me how to bring about fundamental change. "


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