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Posts by Aaron Harber

Mike Rosen argues for ‘royal privilege’ over Electoral College reform

By | 03.23.09 | 8:30 am

As someone who was fortunate to twice win Electoral College elections, I took great interest in Denver Talk Radio host Mike Rosen’s recent defense of the current system. His attack on the principle of “One Person, One Vote“ embodied in Democrats’ attempts to secure a majority of Electoral College votes for whomever wins the national popular vote borders on bizarre as he attempts to defend a system based, in part, on concepts of the privilege of royalty (e.g., the U.S. Senate paralleling the English House of Lords).

Loss of the Capitol news bureau

By | 08.15.08 | 9:16 am

As traditional newspapers transition to an Internet world filled with part-time bloggers, content-sharing Web sites and Google, embedded legislative correspondents have disappeared from the nation’s capitals, apparent victims of dwindling newsroom resources and a changing industry.

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