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Let The People Choose Their Senators

David O. Stewart | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senator Russ Feingold, Constitution, Senators, Constitutional Amendments, Democracy, Vice President Biden, Blagojevich, Ted Kaufman, Michael Bennett, Kristen Gillibrand, Elections, Beau Biden, Seventeenth Amendment, Special Elections, Politics News

Special elections are a lot of trouble and expense: Democracy is a lot of trouble and expense. Despotism is simple. In the eighteenth century, it was difficult to manage elections. Not today.

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Along Came Caroline. And Andrew. And Beau.

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Caroline Kennedy, Mark Udall, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson Jr, Delaware, Birch Bayh, Mark Pryor, Thomas Dodd, George W. Bush, Connecticut, Chris Dodd, Colorado, Democratic Party, Lisa Murkowski, Andrew Cuomo, Mo Udall, John Quincy Adams, Ken Salazar, Republican Party, African-American Issues, Illinois, Bill Clinton, Frank Murkowski, Evan Bayh, Florida, Alaska, Net Worth, Mario Cuomo, Ted Kaufman, Jesse Jackson, David Pryor, Ted Kennedy, New York, Barack Obama, Beau Biden, John Salazar, Rudy Giuliani, Tom Udall, Secretary of the Interior, John Adams, Harry Reid, George H. W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bennet, Secretary of State, Bill Ritter, Jeb Bush, Senate, Indiana, Crest, Kahlua, Oregon, Politics News

Speculation about Hillary Clinton's successor in the Senate will soon be moot, but the debate about America's political dynasties is hopefully just starting.

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By Appointment Only: Blagojevich Mess Spotlights Inanity of Unelected Senators

Mario Correa | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rod Blagojevich, Ted Kaufman, Governor Blagojevich, Blagojevich Scandal, Governor Ruth Ann Minner, Ted Kennedy, Mario Cuomo, Caroline Kennedy, Blagojevich Corruption, Kirsten Gillibrand, Politics News

Doesn't the Kennedy vs. Cuomo angle smack a little of Macbeth, with Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Kirsten Gillibrand and Steve Israel stir the caldron and mumble nonsense in the background?

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Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner Announces Biden's Senate Replacement

Erin Medlicott | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senate, November 24, 2008, Delaware, Wilmington, Ted Kaufman, Chief of Staff, Joe Biden, Gov. Ruth Ann Minner, Vice President -Elect Joe Biden, Politics News

Gov. Ruth Ann Minner has named longtime aide to Sen. Joe Biden, Edward E. "Ted" Kaufman, to fill the U.S. Senate seat Biden will be vacating for the vice presidency.

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