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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.

Remember The Maine Questions?

By Marc Ambinder
Mar 3 2008, 2:48 PM ET Comment

Here's how the DNC is sorting them out. A party activist who follows these things e-mails:

Mithchell and Curtis are unpledged Distinguished Party leader delegates. Mitchell because of his service as the Democratic leader in the Senate and Curtis because he is a former DNC Chair. In years past both of them were registered voters in Maine, so they were part of the Maine delegation. For all unpledged delegates they must be a part of whatever state delegation where they are registered to vote.

This year as the DNC set out to confirm the states of legal residence for the Distinguished Party leader delegates, they realized that neither one of them are registered to vote in Maine. That's fine. Wherever they are registered to vote they will be considered part of that state's delegation. So Mitchell was moved to the NY delegation and Curtis was moved to the FL delegation (which of course has 0 delegates). This is not really that much news. For instance, it was learned that Distinguished Party leader unpledged delegate David Wilhlem was now registered to vote in Ohio. So he was moved from the Illinois delegation (where he was in 2004) to the Ohio delegation. This sort of stuff happens each cycle.


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