After polls showed Alaskan GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller leading or at least tying Republican write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski for weeks, a seemingly endless string of bad publicity (stonewalling the press, past ethics violations, having his private security guards handcuff a journalist) has dropped Miller to third place in the race's latest poll, far behind Murkowski and trailing even Democrat Scott McAdams, who hasn't gotten much national attention but is not theoretically in striking distance. [Politico]