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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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Natural Born

By Marc Ambinder

Feb 28 2008, 10:10 AM ET Comment

Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton (and the Democratic Party) won't make a fuss about whether John McCain was "natural born" and thus constitutionally eligible to serve as president... but nothing prevents some mischievous group... Democrats.com? MoveOn? Judicial Watch? someone else? ... from making a federal case out of it.

Barry Goldwater and George Romney would have been test cases... alas...

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