Steven Rosenfeld has been a political reporter since the 1980s. He worked for Vermont newspapers for a half-dozen years before he took a break and was press secretary on the 1990 US House campaign that first elected Bernie Sanders to Congress. He returned to journalism after moving out West and covered money and politics for Monitor Radio and National Public Radio. He worked as a senior editor at TomPaine.com, an executive producer of the Laura Flanders Show/Radio Nation on Air America Radio, and as a political reporter for AlterNet.org. He is the author or co-author of four book on U.S. elections, including a catalogue of GOP voter suppression in Ohio's 2004 presidential election.