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As you know, David Kurtz and Ben Craw are doing a slew of interviews this weekend at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin. We've got a bunch of headliner interviews lined-up. But for my part I'm just as interested in the interviewers we're doing with candidates from around the country. By and large these aren't interviews that aren't going to generate big headlines. But they're candidates who's names you may have heard but who you likely don't know too much about. So in many ways these are the interviews I'm most interested in seeing. It's a good opportunity to get a sense of who they are and take their measure. . Here's an interview we did with Jeff Merkley, who's running for senate this year out in Oregon against Gordon Smith (R). So far it's looking like a tight race ...