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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.

First Look: McCainRevealed.Com

By Marc Ambinder
Mar 12 2008, 9:45 AM ET Comment

Here's a first look at the centerpiece of the AFL-CIO's multi million dollar campaign to bracket Sen. John McCain ahead of the general election.

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Television ads, radio ads, print ads, Internet ads, canvassing, testimonials, literature and surrogate appearances are planned. Incidentally, although a figure of $53m has been tossed about, that number is what the AFL is planning to devote to the 2008 campaign in total, not solely to bracketing Sen. McCain.

AFL-CIO political director Karen Ackerman will brief reporters on a noon conference call today.

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