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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2170259" data-attributes="member: 246624">Erik Paulsen is my representative to the US Congress.&nbsp; This is his first term.&nbsp; He replaced a very centrist Republican (Jim Ramstad) who retired honorably.&nbsp; I worked for the Democratic Party (DFL, we call it in Minnesota) candidate, <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/10/ashwin_madia_1.php" target="_blank">Ash Madia</a> during that election.&nbsp; Ash was a good candidate but he was inexperienced (which may or may not have been a factor) not quite waspy enough for this very waspy district (which may or may not have been a factor), and although his politics matched those of the district&#039;s constituents quite well (at least as well as the long-lasting Jim Ramstad&#039;s politics did) he was probably viewed as too liberal and people chose the &quot;centrist&quot; candidate Erik Paulsen.&nbsp;<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/who_is_erik_paulsen_anyway.php" target="_blank">Read the rest of this post...</a> | <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/who_is_erik_paulsen_anyway.php#commentsArea" target="_blank">Read the comments on this post...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/pjlW5AmzwqA" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/pjlW5AmzwqA/who_is_erik_paulsen_anyway.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2170259, member: 246624"] Erik Paulsen is my representative to the US Congress. This is his first term. He replaced a very centrist Republican (Jim Ramstad) who retired honorably. I worked for the Democratic Party (DFL, we call it in Minnesota) candidate, [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/10/ashwin_madia_1.php"]Ash Madia[/URL] during that election. Ash was a good candidate but he was inexperienced (which may or may not have been a factor) not quite waspy enough for this very waspy district (which may or may not have been a factor), and although his politics matched those of the district's constituents quite well (at least as well as the long-lasting Jim Ramstad's politics did) he was probably viewed as too liberal and people chose the "centrist" candidate Erik Paulsen. [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/who_is_erik_paulsen_anyway.php"]Read the rest of this post...[/URL] | [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/who_is_erik_paulsen_anyway.php#commentsArea"]Read the comments on this post...[/URL][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/pjlW5AmzwqA[/IMG] [url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/pjlW5AmzwqA/who_is_erik_paulsen_anyway.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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