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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.

"Bitter" Makes Its First Mail Appearance

By Marc Ambinder
Apr 17 2008, 3:04 PM ET Comment

In a mail card for Republican congressional candidate Matt Shaner, who is running for the congressional seat being vacated by retiring Rep. John Peterson in Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District.

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Voting for Shaner will "send a message" to Barack Obama. Shaner's message: "I'm a god-fearing, church-going, NRA member and I'm proud of it!" It'll be hard to tell whether the mail card is successful as there are so many variables that determine who wins primaries, but if more Republican strategists begin to use "bitter" in their materials, it's probably because the NRCC and Republican pollsters have polled and focused grouped the comments and found them provocative. GOP strategist John Brabender's company produced this particular piece.

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