Yesterday morning, I wrote that “the odds of a Republican ever again being elected to statewide office here are about as good as the possibility that Katharine McPhee will survive tonight’s results show and make it to the next round of American Idol.” In the Idol shocker of the year, McPhee did survive last night — and odds-on favorite Chris Daughtry was sent home. Watch out, Eliot Spitzer! Miracles can happen!