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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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3.4 Million New Registrants (Or, Steve Hildebrand's Legacy)

By Marc Ambinder

May 5 2008, 5:12 PM ET Comment

It's an... (cue sound effect) IMPACT story from the Associated Press. (Seriously, that's how the A.P. labels original stories for its subscribers.) The folks at the family wire have analyzed voter registration data from 50 states and have come up with a figure of about 3.4 million newly registered voters. Though many states do not ask for partisan affiliation, it's a safe bet that a plurality of those who chose a party (as opposed to independents, the fastest growing segment) were Democrats. About 2 million people registered during the same period of 2004.

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