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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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AFL-CIO's Veterans To Counter Conservative Efforts

By Marc Ambinder

Jul 9 2008, 11:45 AM ET Comment



The first television ad from the AFL-CIO's Union Vets Council has been unsheathed. A spokesman says it will air in Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. "We’re running the ad in towns where good jobs have disappeared because of flawed economic policies and failure to invest in jobs – places where the current economic slowdown is particularly acute." Interesting tactical move -- linking veterans' issues to economic anxieties.

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