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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the politics editor of The Atlantic. He has covered Washington for ABC News and the Hotline, and he is chief political consultant to CBS News. Follow him on Twitter @marcambinder

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Marc Ambinder is the politics editor for The Atlantic, where he curates the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributes to the magazine. He is also a contributing editor to National Journal and chief political consultant to CBS News. 

At the 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,"

In 2009, he was part of the team was awarded the Columbia University School of Journalism's Dupont Silver Baton for Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin.  At ABC News, his work included Emmy-nominated research for "This Week." The Politics site has been nominated for a Webby and has won several national awards, including the Golden Dot from George Washington University's Democracy Online project. 

He covers politics, policy, national security and science.

Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, he's a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Sarah Palin Gave A Campaign Speech

Feb 6 2010, 11:32 PM ET | Comment

And that's pretty much all you need to know. So much of a campaign speech was it that I am revising upward my estimate of the chances she runs for president in 2012. So much so that I am evaluating my basic Palin assumption, which is that she has decided not to run for office.  Nominally the speech was a rallying cry for the Tea Party movement, but it was really an "I Told You So" series of verbal slings at President Obama, his budget, his national security policies and his liberalism. Some memorable lines:

"How's that hope-y, change-y stuff working out for ya." (re: Obama.)

"We win, you lose." (Her description of her national security philosophy.)

"It's no wonder that our president only spent about 9 percent of his State of the Union address discussing national security, foreign policy, because there aren't a whole lot of victories he can talk about."


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