For a while, it looked like the newly reconstituted Federal Election Commission was about to end up in the same place as the old FEC: deadlocked. In the end, however, the commissioners were able to compromise during an Oct. 31 open meeting, approving by a 5-1 vote an advisory opinion for the campaign of Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller (AO 2013-11). The ruling was the first substantive question to face the FEC since the arrival of two newly appointed commissioners, Lee Goodman and Ann Ravel