Column: These 80-something senators are gliding to reelection. Did Feinstein face a double standard?

Angus King of Maine, 80, and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, 82, are expected to easily win reelection in November. “I don’t think the age factor is significant enough to threaten his reelection,” said Matthew Dickinson of Vermont’s Middlebury College. The glide paths that King and Sanders are following to reelection would Politics Dianne Feinstein’s final day in the Senate The longtime senator from California died this week at her home in Washington. “Talk to him for five minutes and you’ll see he’s sharp as a tack.” Sanders “shows no slippage, no discernible stuttering or muttering or age-related disconnect,” said Nelson, who has known the senator for more than half a century, going back to Sanders’ rabble-rousing days as a repeatedly unsuccessful candidate for statewide office. At 45 — a youngster, by Senate standards — Butler had this to say about King and Sanders: “Every 80-year-old isn’t the same.” Moreover, she told Politico, “To judge one person, or five people, or two people based on the number on their birth certificate is probably not the best representation of American freedom.” But don’t take her word, or anyone else’s.