Seattle Times reporter Jonathan Martin has filed one of the best campaign profiles so far this election season.

Covering Dino Rossi's trek to Eastern Washington, Martin sifts through Tea Party politics, Rossi rhetoric, and the nuances of this year's election with appropriate skepticism (he calls Rossi "light on detail") and poetic flashes ("Rossi, wearing polished wingtips before a crowd of workers in steel-toed boots...").

It's not a notably long profile, but it does an expert job distilling Dino Rossi.