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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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McCain's Secret Service Code Name

By Marc Ambinder

Jun 19 2008, 10:59 AM ET Comment

is, according to a source who knows, "Phoenix."

It was McCain's choice. Associations: rising from the ashes. Arizona. Etc.

Cindy McCain has also picked a code name. It probably also begins with a "P".

As has been previously and extensively reported, Barack Obama is "Renegade." His wife Michelle is "Renaissance."

No comment from the McCain campaign.

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