Ted Stevens Keeps On Truckin'

This is just full of win. Ted Stevens has won his primary battle against six (!) Republican challengers. Looks like we’ll have Ted Stevens to kick around for just a little bit more. He’s 84 years old, under indictment for allegedly concealing $250,000 in gifts from an oil services company and he’s insane. Even if Stevens isn’t convicted and manages to beat the Democratic challenger, Anchorage mayor Mark Begich, he’ll be ninety years old at the end of his next term. It really is striking the extent to which earmarks help incumbents stay in power. Since joining the senate in 1970, Stevens has never won by less than 59% of the vote.