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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.

If They'd Only Listened To Ruffini...

By Marc Ambinder
Mar 14 2008, 12:56 PM ET Comment

Patrick Ruffini, one of the finest strategic minds in the Republican Party, is tearing his hair out trying to get the McCain campaign to pay attention to a major strategic deficit they face and are not apparently willing to confront.

How does John McCain go up against the $3 million-per-email Obama machine and the $2 million-per-email Clinton machine? It’s a big question with serious implications for the future of the Republican Party


It's just doesn't look right ... Obama or Clinton raising their general election money from millions of younger folks...... and McCain raising his in thousand dollar increments from rich white guys. Who will be dead in ten years.

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