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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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Campaign Debt Help For Clinton

By Marc Ambinder

Jun 6 2008, 11:22 AM ET Comment

As you begin to read about the negotiations between the Obama and Clinton campaigns over her $30M+ debt, note that under federal law, Obama can't simply transfer money into Sen. Clinton's account. He can lend her his e-mail list; he can ask his donors to raise money for her campaign, but he can't give her money.

Some Clinton advisers believe that Sen. Clinton should first ask her supporters to help retire her debt -- at least the $20M or so that's not her own loans -- before she turns to Obama as a supplicant.

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