… except in the warped world of government largesse.
“Under the Dome” tells us this morning that North Carolina has had the most competitive U.S. Senate races since 1990.
This is a good thing, for the most part. But when it comes to passing out the federal pork, it tends to help to have a Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, or Ted Stevens. With decades of uninterrupted service in the nation’s capital, those fellows built up the seniority that helped them attract a lot of federal taxpayer dollars.
Andy Taylor made this point in a recent Carolina Beat.
