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Apparently, the political surprise deities have saved their best for last: Alaska–US Senate (Republican)– 29% 33% of precincts reporting Joe Miller 51 Senator Lisa Murkowski 49 That. Is. Not. A. Misprint. Bear in mind a few things. It is very early. That two-percentage point spread in sparsely-populated Alaska adds up to 537 votes. One of the areas already largely in is none other than the Wasilla region. But Miller is very much in it against incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski.

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Democratic Sen. Patty Murray and her leading Republican challenger emerged from their primary Tuesday and will face off again in November in a race that could be pivotal in the battle for control of the Senate. Murray and Republican Dino Rossi already have been campaigning against each other in anticipation of a fall matchup, and President Barack Obama came to the state Tuesday to bolster the Democrat’s candidacy.

Summer is a time for fun, flirting and romance. And according to the tabloids and celebrity blogs that many of us guiltily read, it’s also a time for broken engagements, lawsuits and unplanned pregnancies. Hmm…how many days until September, again?? Not to fear. The voyeuristically emotional rollercoaster ride of this season’s most talked-about celeb couplings - and de-couplings - has not been in vain. Mel, Bristol, Jude & Co.

What is it with the national media and Alaska these days? Were reporters infected with a case of Palin-steria after the national elections? Ever since, every Alaska-connected story has had them scurrying around the state like a bunch of crazed lemmings that stumbled into a patch of really good Matanuska weed, and I’m not talking about invasive dandelions.

A Conversation With Rosanne Cash Mike Ragogna : Your new autobiography Composed: A Memoir doesn’t follow the typical, linear format. Rosanne Cash : It’s not a straight chronology as an autobiography normally would be. It doesn’t start, “I was born on a Tuesday,” blah, blah, blah. I wasn’t really interested in doing that. It’s more circular and themes keep reappearing in my present life that throw me back into the past or the future. It covers, pretty much, my whole life up until 2007 or 2008.

Need proof that the Secretary of State is an A+ mom? Check out her daughter Chelsea who DIDN’T get pregnant at 17 or announce her engagement on the cover of a magazine and who isn’t shopping a reality show like Bristol Palin. Isn’t it ironic that uber-working mom Hillary who took heat as First Lady because she didn’t take her cookie recipes seriously, should be the mom of a Stanford and Oxford University grad, who is getting married on July 31, at the age of 30. She’s NOT pregnant!

If the tea party movement isn’t racist, then at the very least, it’s not necessarily bright. And nothing displays the movement’s stupidity more than its ongoing dust up with the NAACP over the civil rights group’s resolution asking that the organization condemn racism in its midst.

And so it has come to passeth on this day that Sharron Angle, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Nevada, has been endorsed by the Lord Almighty himself.

Sarah Palin’s Twitter account has been rich fodder this week for those of us who enjoy that lazy summer pasttime of rolling our eyes at ex-half-governors who believe they have something to add to the national discourse via social media. Her latest is a petulant, 9th grade, hand-on-hip screed directed at Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel.

What a day: Joe Barton was browbeaten into apologizing for apologizing, Alvin Greene, a guy who the House Majority Whip insists is perverting the electoral process, considers himself the Person of the Year. Utah is executing someone tonight by firing squad and the condemned’s last meal is a 7UP (paging Dr. Pepper Snapple Group’s media relations department…). And, as if the day wasn’t ridiculous enough, Alabama’s Dale Peterson is back, still giving a rip.