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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.

The First Line Of Every Democratic Campaign Speech In 2010...

By Marc Ambinder
Dec 4 2009, 10:37 AM ET Comment

May have been uttered by Christina Romer, chair of the President's Council on Economic Advisers, who released the administration's reaction to the unemployment rate change today.  It's her final line: 

But, it is clear we are moving in the right direction

(Thanks to Ron Brownstein for the insight.)


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