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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.

McCain Places _tiny_ Ad Buy In Oregon

By Marc Ambinder
May 13 2008, 5:09 PM ET Comment

More details later, but the McCain campaign has placed its first ad buy in the Pacific Northwest. McCain's there today talking about the environment.

But it's tiny. Very, very tiny. How tiny?

A total of less than $1,500. For 36 gross ratings points. (A saturation buy equals 1,000 gross ratings points.)

The reason for the small buy: to be able to run an advertisement and then tell the press that the buy is "real," giving the press a pretext to cover the content of the advertisement and magnifying its effects.

Unless I'm missing something.

Update: the McCain campaign insists that the buy is much larger but they won't provide details. Again, the figures above come from a reputable source who opposes McCain, so make of it what you will.

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