Since joining NBC News in 2003, Mark Murray has reported on and written about political races, trends, and issues -- including the Bush-Kerry presidential race, the 2006 midterm elections, and the emerging 2008 White House contest.
Before coming to NBC, he spent more than five years as a reporter at the political magazine National Journal, and has written freelance articles for the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Monthly, and Washingtonian magazine.
Murray, a native Texan, is a 1996 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and he resides in Washington, D.C.