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Good news from Alaska. A Hays Research poll has Sean Parnell slightly ahead, though the sample size is not quite where you'd like it to be:

Hays Research, 400 respondents (175 GOPers), Republican Primary, 7/24-25

Sean Parnell 45.7%
Don Young 42.3%

Kos made a fairly big deal about a Sarah Palin "scandal" a few days back, but the poll still shows Palin with sky-high favorability: 80-16% fav/unfav. And Don Young? He's upside down 41-55%.

The one warning cloud here is that the Parnell general matchup with Democrat Ethan Berkowitz is a tossup, and Young wasn't tested. But you can bet that Young is down by double digits. Alaska has a tendency to close for Republicans in the final days. It did for Lisa Murkowski and Sarah Palin in 2004 and 2006. Parnell is likely to pull it out. Young isn't.