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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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The Equation In New Jersey: Why It's Close

By Marc Ambinder

Nov 3 2009, 9:06 PM ET Comment

A Sitting Governor's Approval Rating at less than 40%
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A perennially disgruntled populace
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One of the highest taxed states in the country
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A reconfigured off-off-year electorate
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Disaffected Democrats
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A crusading, anti-corruption, independent Republican who, it turns out, made some questionable decisions of his own
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Attention paid to the challenge's obesity
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A last minute draping of the presidential coattails
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