Back to Alaska: the results in Alaska are puzzling everyone. Polling was completely out of sync with the results -- which might be able to be explained as a product of a sort of "Bradley / Wilder" Effect, perhaps, where people wouldn't admit to pollsters that they were voting for Ted Stevens and Don Young. (Actually, everyone's been disputing the "Bradley Effect" as a bit of fiction, but there are other examples of the general effect. David Duke underpolled in his statewide races in Louisiana in the early 1990s, for example.)

But then the voting was down as well. In this year where Palin was expected to drive Alaskans to the polls.

Spurious suggestions are being made in blogging comments that Alaskan election officials must have just casually tossed a bunch of ballots into the Pacific Ocean.