The same news story can be at once shocking and the least surprising thing in the world. Such is the New York Times report that independent Alaska Senate candidate Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., who shares the same name as endangered Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), is a Democratic plant.

On the one hand, of course this guy is only running to siphon votes off Sen. Sullivan, thus giving Democrat Mary Peltola a better chance to win a Senate seat with a minority of the vote. No honest person ever doubted that.

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