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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.

On McCain's VP Timing

By Marc Ambinder
Jul 22 2008, 8:04 AM ET Comment

Here are two more reasons why it's not likely John McCain will announce his vice presidential selection this week:

Mitt Romney, for one, is out of the country and has no plans to return until the end of the week.

So is Cindy McCain. (No, they're not together.)

Kind of hard to imagine a VP rollout without the spouse....

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