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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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2024 Is The New Magic Number

By Marc Ambinder

Mar 17 2008, 10:43 AM ET Comment

The Democratic National Committee tells us this morning that the new Magic Number is 2024, thanks to a variety of micro-changes, including the travails of Client #9.


** Bill Foster's election in Illinois's 14 congressional district increases by one the number of superdelegates.

** Andre Carson's election in Indiana 7th congressional district increases by one the number of superdelegates.

** As chronicled here, the number of superdelegates declines by one because ex-DNC chair Ken Curtis retired to Florida from Maine.

** Eliot Spitzer's resignation means that David Paterson can't serve as 2 superdelegates at once, so the number decreases by one.

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