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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.

Bloomberg: Informed Whispers

By Marc Ambinder
May 23 2008, 1:22 PM ET Comment

Sen. John McCain had breakfast last week with New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. The usual tongues wagged. But it is true that certain McCain advisers who are privy to McCain's thinking about the vice presidential search have asked other Republicans about the benefits and drawbacks of selecting Bloomberg.... this could mean simply that they're curious or that they're trying to talk McCain into thinking seriously about a Bloomberg pick... or nothing at all. But those following this closely should take the idea of a McCain-Bloomberg ticket a lot more seriously than, say, a McCain-Rice ticket.

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