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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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Republicans Who Like Obama, Part VII

By Marc Ambinder

Apr 29 2009, 4:04 PM ET Comment


4/28/2009

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On Wednesday President Obama will have been in office for 100 days, and commentators, politicians and pundits are taking the occasion to ask, "How's he doing?"

Rep. Tom Petri says he's doing "fairly well."

"He has set a positive and non-confrontational tone," Petri said. "He has achieved a number of successes - most notably the passage of a huge stimulus bill. And I think that success is reflected in the change in the public mood to being a bit more positive about the future of the country."

Petri added that he disagrees with the President on many things, but can't deny that he is effective. 


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