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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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Who Gets The Cameo In GOP Ads? Obama

By Marc Ambinder

Apr 22 2008, 4:08 PM ET Comment

Republicans seem to have an idea about the identity of the likely Democratic nominee.

Freedom's Watch, the Republican 501(c) 4 that is spending heavily in Congressional races, is airing an ad in Louisiana's 6th congressional district that links State Rep. Don Cazayoux's health care plan with Obama's.

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"Health care," the narrator intones. "A big issue. Where does Don Cazayouz stand? With Barack Obama for a big government scheme.... Cazayoux and Obama would create a huge bureaucracy... they'd put bureaucrats in charge instead of doctors and patients."

Etc.

Former Rep. Melissa Hart is testing the effect of Sen. Obama's "bitter" comments against Rep. Jason Altmire in PA's 4th congressional district with this web ad.

HART: I'm Melissa Hart and I approve this message.

ANNC: Barack Obama described small town, hardworking, God fearing, Second Amendment-respecting families of western Pennsylvania as bitter. Barack Obama said our bitterness makes us cling to our religion, and our guns. This was simply an insult. But maybe the biggest insult of all is how Jason Altmire continues to defend Barack Obama. Jason Altmire. Just how much of the liberal Kool-Aid did he drink?


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