By Eric Boehm, includes “It is not hyperbole to say that Edward Durr, a 58-year-old truck driver from New Jersey, just pulled off one of the biggest political upsets in American history. With a bare-bones campaign that reportedly cost less than $6,000 (some earlier reports claimed that Durr spent just $153 on the race, but Durr later clarified that was not a full accounting) … Durr's victory is another reminder that for all the pearl clutching about money in politics, contemporary American campaigns are less determined by big piles of cash … than ever.”