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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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Axelrod Is Serene, But Calls Discourse "Worrisome"

By Marc Ambinder

Oct 1 2009, 8:53 PM ET Comment

Closing the first night of the First Draft Of History Conference, without much prompting, Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod, name-checks Tom Friedman's column -- comparing the atmosphere before Rabin's assassination to the atmosphere in America today --  calling it "interesting" -- and tries to explain why politics seem so polarized.

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