  Motivated by recent advances in the application of effective field theory
techniques to light nuclei we revisit the problem of electron-deuteron
scattering in these approaches. By sidestepping problems with the description
of electron-nucleon scattering data in effective field theories, we show that
the effective theory expansion for deuteron physics converges well over a wide
range of momentum transfers. The resultant description of the physics of the
two-nucleon system is good up to virtual photon momenta of order 700 MeV.
