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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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By Marc Ambinder
Feb 11 2009, 10:10 AM ET Comment

The Democrats are selling the stimulus plan as it if were a Samsung 50 inch integrated plasma TV.  The Republicans? Where's the 527 activity? Where are the influencer-targeted cable ads? I get plenty of e-mails from Republican/conservative groups warning of the socialization of government, and maybe talk radio is talking care of the base quotient for Republicans, but no one seems to be willing to put any money behind the opposition.

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