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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.

Why McCain/Romney Doesn't Work (Yet)

By Marc Ambinder
Mar 11 2008, 10:21 AM ET Comment

Trust.

There is no single more important qualification, from the standpoint of the person who picks the vice presidential nominee, than trust. This is what John McCain's veepstakes czar will surely advise him, lest he (she?) be guilty of malpractice.

And John McCain, although he brings people in and out of his inner circle with surprising ease, doesn't trust all but a handful of people, usually folks who have suffered along with him. The presidential race doesn't cut it. No amount of assurances, cajoling, convincing, pressuring and persuading can build a level of trust between Mitt Romney and John McCain.

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