Is the seemingly endless Alaska Senate race drawing to a close?

Yet another loss for Tea Party candidate Joe Miller. Reuters reports that a federal district judge dismissed Joe Miller's lawsuit challenging his loss to Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's election for a Senate seat. The judge lifted the injunction that he had previously imposed. That injunction delayed certification of the election results. The election is expected to be certified on Thursday, December 30th.

Murkowski, the incumbent, will be the first Senate candidate to win based on a write-in campaign since 1954.