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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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55,000 From 1.5 Million

By Marc Ambinder

Apr 29 2008, 9:41 AM ET Comment

Will Barack Obama's campaign reach its goal of 1.5 million donors by May 6? Does it even matter? 1.5 million is a nice, whole number and a great talking point, but 1.45m isn't exactly a failure. At $50 a pop, 1.5 million donors can fund a $75,000,000 general election campaign. The Obama campaign has kept mum about its plans for the general election, but here's betting they've done the math, too.

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