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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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Dem Loyalty Triumphs; WH Not Mad At Bayh, Nelson

By Marc Ambinder

Apr 3 2009, 9:21 AM ET Comment

After all the sturm und drang from left side of the party, how many fewer House and Senate Democrats voted against President Obama's budget than against President Clinton's first budget? Democrats lost only 20 members in the House this year versus 41 who defected from Clinton.  Two senators -- Evan Bayh and Bill Nelson -- voted no this year, versus six who went against Clinton. The upshot: a very loyal, focused, Democratic Party that is moving mostly in lockstep with the President.  BTW: senior administration officials tell my colleague Ron Brownstein they have no trouble with Nelson and Bayh voting no given their support for earlier measures and given their electoral situation.



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