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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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The Delegate Math Tonight

By Marc Ambinder

May 20 2008, 7:30 PM ET Comment

Borrowing blatantly here from Chuck Todd, if Obama wins more than 50 delegates tonight, which is quite possible, he will be able to claim that (a) he is within about 70 delegates of reaching 2026 and (b) has a majority of pledged delegates INCLUDING what Clinton would win if the delegations of Florida and Michigan were seated in total.

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