The election may be over, but apparently there were still enough bills to pay that Republican Rich Tarrant had to write his campaign another $300,000 in checks on Nov. 8, according to his latest filing with the latest Federal Election Commission.

The new, and perhaps last infusion of money pushes the amount he spent self-financing his campaign to $6,875,000 and the total amount of money raised for his campaign past the $7M mark to at least $7,188,294.

Divide the by the number of votes he got, unofficially 84,517, and it appears Tarrant set a new record for money spent per voter by a self-financed Senate candidate: $85.05. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the previous record was set by Jon Corzine, who spent $41.08 on every vote he won in a successful 2000 bid for the Senate in New Jersey. The full post-election FEC reports come out later this week.

Meanwhile, the oohing and ahhing among the left in the aftermath of Bernie Sanders win last week is in full tilt over at Daily Kos. For a look at what the lefty world is saying about Sanders, click HERE.

--Sam Hemingway

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