Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterNew to the Senate: Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)
Published 11/7/2008 by Post at Wash Post Elections
Jeff Merkley, the Oregon House speaker with an unassuming manner and a fondness for policy, has taken an unconventional path to the U.S. Senate.
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