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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.

McCain To Press Obama on Iraq

By Marc Ambinder
Jun 30 2008, 5:51 AM ET Comment

Look for the McCain camp this week to start predicting that Obama will change his position on Iraq and to press the case that Obama has flip-flopped on a half dozen issues within the space of a month. (McCain, in his remarks yesterday, previewed this line of attack).

One McCain adviser says: "He is in a bad place. Caught between his promise to his base and the reality on the ground. Immediate withdrawal isn't a good place to be."

So far, there's no evidence -- aside from some vocal online critics -- that Obama's base is beginning get anxious -- he routinely gets support from more than 90% of liberal Democrats.

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