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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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Daschle withdraws

By Marc Ambinder

Feb 3 2009, 1:00 PM ET Comment

President Obama, in a statement: "Tom made a mistake, which he has openly acknowledged. He has not executed it, nor do I."  Daschle told NBC News's Andrea Mitchell that the New York Times editorial this morning made him realize that passing health care reform would be made all the more difficulti if he were a distraction. 

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