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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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Re-Vote In Florida and Michigan: The Cost

By Marc Ambinder

Mar 5 2008, 5:23 PM ET Comment

If you're Hillary Clinton, how do you propose to pay for two primaries costing a total of $20M?

1. Propose to jointly fund them with Barack Obama through a grassroots, online fundraising drive. This would be sexy and hard for Obama to say no to.

2. Recognize that state parties can take soft money, and convince labor unions to foot the bill. (Not sure if labor would be willing, but...)

3. Rely on the generosity of Gov. Charlie Crist and Gov. Jennifer Granholm. (Crist offered to pay for a primary and then backed away from his offer.)

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