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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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Bredesen's Down On His Chances

By Marc Ambinder

Feb 11 2009, 3:13 PM ET Comment

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen says that the post of Health and Human Services secretary probably won't come his way.  Meanwhile, at an Atlantic event this morning, my colleague Joshua Green tried to get Sen. Ron Wyden to say whether he might be up for consideration. Wyden wouldn't say...

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