High fives throughout the glass-enclosed nerve center of Extreme Mortman today.

Why? We eagerly read the new “Political Junkie” column by Ken Rudin, which we always do, and saw that he listed incumbent senators who have been defeated for renomination — an Extreme Trivia question we asked, what, AGES AGO!

But Ken does have something we didn’t: this button from the last time an incumbent Senator lost a primary — Illinois’ Alan Dixon 1992 to Carol Moseley Braun.

Meanwhile, we’ve still got the latest Extreme Trivia question — name the last incumbent Republican to lose a Senate primary — unsolved. To those who keep saying Jacob Javits: STOP ALREADY. He’s not the most recent.

But I do want to recognize Herb Wachs, the great wise scholar from Reading, Pennsylvania who doubles as my father-in-law, for sending this note:

There are very many Republican Senators in the PA Senate who lost
reelection bids this year. The PA legislature voted themselves big pay raises in a middle of the night budget session last year. The voters were outraged. Many Republican incumbents were defeated in primaries in PA. So if you expand your question to PA politics, there are a lot of Republican Senators who were defeated in PA in 2006.

How true.