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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.

Cancer Politics

By Marc Ambinder
Apr 3 2008, 1:42 PM ET Comment

Did Elizabeth Edwards play politics with cancer?

ABC's Jake Tapper quotes Edwards as saying of McCain, "Neither one of us would be covered by his health policy."

Fred Malek, an entrepreneur and major Republican fundraiser who is close to McCain, responds here.

Is her point legitimate, albeit provocative? Or does it cross the line? And what is the line, anyway?

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