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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.

Would Clinton Accept The Veep Slot?

By Marc Ambinder
May 8 2008, 10:17 AM ET Comment

Horribly premature to ask that question, perhaps, and the conventional wisdom everywhere in the political world is, basically, no way, not Hillary, never.

George Stephanopoulos disagrees:

It's hard to know. I mean, first of all, would Sen. Obama go for it? Can he get over the bitterness of this campaign? Can he be convinced that it's the strongest ticket? Third, of course, would Sen. Clinton take it? I think if it was offered in the right way, yes.


A very close friend of Clinton's told me that accepting the vice presidential nomination in theory was very different than actually being given the chance to become vice president in reality. "Would she accept it? I don't know. But she's never been in a position where's she actually had to contemplate answering the question. It's possible she would say yes."

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