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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.

Obama And The Jewish Vote

By Marc Ambinder
May 7 2008, 12:46 PM ET Comment

Gallup's tracking finds that 61% of all Jewish voters would choose Barack Obama in a general election versus John McCain, only a smidge less than the percentage who would choose Clinton over McCain (66%).

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Caveat: Jews have voted for the Democrat in much higher proportions -- John Kerry took 76% of the Jewish vote; Al Gore took 79% of the Jewish vote.

What this suggests is that McCain attracts more than an average Republican's share of Jewish voters -- not that Obama repels him.

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