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		<title>We Need a New Generation in Washington</title>
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Investors Business Daily has a pro-Hatch propaganda piece up that deserves a few tweaks.
First, the headline says that republicans must gain control of Congress for the economy to recover. Do we really need to remind everyone that Republicans were in control of Congress almost uninterrupted control of Congress from 1995 to 2007. Had Republicans retained [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://pursuit-of-liberty.davidjmiller.org/2012/we-need-a-new-generation-in-washington/#comments">Leave a Comment</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign Platform of the President the Nation Needs</title>
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The other day I was sitting on a bus with time to let my mind wander. I was thinking about our presidential campaign season and the ideas being promoted by our current candidates &#8211; including our current president &#8211; when I found myself considering what kind of a president I think our nation needs &#8211; [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://pursuit-of-liberty.davidjmiller.org/2012/campaign-platform-of-the-president-the-nation-needs/#comments">Leave a Comment</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Addressing Abysmal Voter Turnout</title>
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Adam Brown had an interesting post about possible causes for low voter turnout in Utah. Adam suggests three possible causes for low voter turnout but essentially dismisses the relative youth of our state as being a cause not supported by the data (and he knows data analysis). That leaves us with two possibilities (according to [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://pursuit-of-liberty.davidjmiller.org/2012/addressing-abysmal-voter-turnout/#comments">Leave a Comment</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Perceived Electability and IRV – A Case Study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a followup to last night&#8217;s special election to fill Dan Liljenquist&#8217;s term as State Senator, I noticed some interesting things based on my interactions with other delegates and my review of the actual results (round-by-round, not just the final tally).
First let me provide some metrics that some people might be interested in &#8211; we [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://pursuit-of-liberty.davidjmiller.org/2012/perceived-electability-and-irv-%e2%80%93-a-case-study/#comments">Leave a Comment</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Special Election – Senate District 23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight is the night that county delegates will vote on who should finish the term for Dan Liljenquist. I have noticed over the weeks of campaigning &#8211; especially in the last few days &#8211; that many of the good ideas that have been promised by one candidate or another are being adopted by other candidates. [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://pursuit-of-liberty.davidjmiller.org/2012/special-election-%e2%80%93-senate-district-23/#comments">Leave a Comment</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Please Don’t Vote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not exactly the message you would expect to hear on election day. For those who know me it&#8217;s not a message they would ever expect to hear from me. As I drove to work this morning after casting my vote I got thinking about how destructive an uninformed vote can be. I won&#8217;t claim [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://pursuit-of-liberty.davidjmiller.org/2011/please-don%e2%80%99t-vote/#comments">Leave a Comment</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Redistricting in Ut(opia)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been watching the redistricting process with interest although I have not been able to be as vocal in the discussions as I might have wished. This late in the process we can see the forces at work and the concerns being raised. On top of that, I have been asked how I think [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://pursuit-of-liberty.davidjmiller.org/2011/redistricting-in-utopia/#comments">Leave a Comment</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Marginal Logic for Same-Sex Marriage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m a big fan of the CATO Institute and their perspective on constitutional government but no matter how much I may generally agree with them, that cannot give them a free pass to use use absolutely terrible logic to promote a position. You’ll have to take my word for it that I would dislike the [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://pursuit-of-liberty.davidjmiller.org/2011/marginal-logic-for-same-sex-marriage/#comments">Leave a Comment</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Fireworks Day</title>
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photo credit: Camera Slayer
Regardless of how much some people may talk about the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States during their celebrations on the fourth day of July each year, and despite reports suggesting that participation in such celebrations makes children more likely to identify politically as Republicans, it seems obvious [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://pursuit-of-liberty.davidjmiller.org/2011/happy-fireworks-day/#comments">(2 comments)</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Failure of the American Voter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about the massive disconnect between the abysmal ratings that Congress enjoys (8% approval I recently read) and the virtual invincibility of Congressional incumbents (incumbents consistently win 90% of the elections where they seek reelection).
I realized that the apparent disconnect was not as stark as it first appeared (11 out of 12 disapproving [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://pursuit-of-liberty.davidjmiller.org/2011/failure-of-the-american-voter/#comments">Leave a Comment</a></div>]]></description>
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