Tea Party Republican Joe Miller may have lost the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Alaska to write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski, but he won the Internet this weekend with this footage of a run-in with an otter mama seeking to evade a pod of hungry orcas.

Move out of the way, "Young Guns." A considerably more important three-person clique has emerged in the ranks of America's top Republicans. They are called "The Joe's" — don't know what's going on with that apostrophe, but okay — and they're headlining what they themselves have termed the "Political Event of the Year," a.k.a. any Tea Party fundraiser.

And with only a few hundred write-in votes left to count, the AP calls it: Lisa Murkowski has finally defeated Joe Miller in Alaska's Senate race as a write-in candidate. Be nice to her now, Republicans: She's your Joe Lieberman.

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski now has more uncontested write-in votes than challenger Joe Miller has votes, period.

NYT's current top story: "Alaska Three-Way Is Surprise Hope for Democrats." Warring Republicans Joe Miller and Lisa Murkowski are splitting the vote, to Democratic longshot Scott McAdams' glee. Ladies, don't fight, there's enough "Boat-Size Killer Whale" to go around.

A pretty stunning new poll of Alaska's Senate race shows Joe Miller, the Republican candidate and clear favorite since his primary win, suddenly dropping to third place. And third place is a bad place to be, days before an election.

Are you a journalist? Would you like to ask Alaska's Republican Senate candidate some questions? Well, I wouldn't try doing so after a town hall meeting at a school. Because you might get handcuffed and "detained" by his security detail.

Okay, now we're really starting to understand why Todd Palin got so furious at Alaska Senate candidate (and Sarah Palin endorsee) Joe Miller. Because Fox News asked him again today about Sarah Palin's presidential qualifications, and he still answered vaguely.

Todd Palin has confirmed the authenticity of his angry, grammar-free email to an endorsee that leaked yesterday.

Some testy emails between the camps of Sarah Palin and Alaskan Senate candidate Joe Miller, whom she endorsed, have leaked, and yikes! Basically, when Miller refused to directly answer a televised question regarding Palin's presidential qualifications, Todd Palin was... unhappy.

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R - AK) has conceded her primary race against challenger Joe Miller.

Sarah Palin-backed Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller, who's likely to pull off a surprising upset over incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary, thinks that Murkowski is a real whore. Oops! Here comes a deleted tweet...

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski's surprising, all-but-finalized primary defeat in Alaska last night to the Palin-backed upstart Joe Miller may have opened a November pickup opportunity for Democrats! Sadly, the Democratic party doesn't even know who its candidate is.