Joe Miller refuses to give up fight for Senate

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Joe Miller refuses to give up fight for Senate

December 31, 2010 — Laura

Joe Miller is no longer conceding the Alaskan Senate race! I have it on good authority that he thinks maybe he still can win the seat:

Those genius editors composing headlines on the Yahoo! front page are always way ahead of the journalistic crowd, breaking news that actually never happened. Sigh.

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