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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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Veepwatch: Webb Takes Manhattan

By Marc Ambinder

May 20 2008, 1:31 PM ET Comment

Everyone's favorite Scotch-Irish military hero and Jacksonian-loving rogue, James Webb, takes the salons of Manhattan and non-noncommittally answers a question about the vice presidency.

Count on it: whether Obama likes him or not (and I don't know enough about their relationship to say one way or the other), the guy is going to be vetted -- political imperatives demand it.

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