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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.

Pro-Huckabee Robocalls In Virginia

By Marc Ambinder
Feb 11 2008, 1:31 PM ET Comment

Reader A. writes in about a robocall she received late last week:

It asked if I was going to vote in the VA primary (yes), if I considered
myself a Republican (no), if I considered myself an independent (yes), if
it would affect my vote if I knew Huckabee had the endorsement of some
sort of machinists' union (no), if I considered myself pro-life (no), if
it would affect my vote to know that Romney changed his position multiple
times on abortion (no -- and why are they still asking about Romney?), if
it would affect my vote to know that McCain supports testing on unborn
babies (no -- and what?), if it would affect my vote to know that Huckabee
is the strongest candidate on life (no), and then a series of similar
questions on illegal immigration (first negative info on Romney, then on
McCain, then positive info on Huckabee). It was an odd call, since my
answers didn't seem to affect the script.

And I'm voting Obama anyway.


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