Just shy of eight months after Election Day, the Minnesota Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman has finally been decided. The state Supreme Court upheld Franken’s win today and Colemen conceded defeat. Gov. Tim Pawlenty was set to sign the certificate of election this afternoon and Franken will be heading to Washington next week.

The special election to fill now-Sen. Kristen Gillibrand’s Congressional seat (NY-20) was held today, but even before the polls closed, Republican candidate Jim Tedisco was bringing in the legal artillery.

Terrence “Baby Wipes” Howard: Renee of Womanist Musings has a guest post at Shakesville telling off Ebony magazine for including actor Terrence Howard on the cover as a “Renaissance Man”. To be fair, if it is a “men with serious control issues who threaten to kill their daughter’s boyfriend, refer to her abstinence in creepy ways, beat their ex wives and say women aren’t clean unless they use baby wipes after urinating” renaissance, Ebony totally got this one right.

CNN is projecting that Republican Saxby Chambliss has won the Senate seat in the Georgia runoff. His Democratic opponent was Jim Martin. This loss will keep the Democrats at least one (two if Franken loses Minnesota) away from a filibuster beating 6li0.

The election of Barack Obama and Joe Biden and the appointments following have left some Senate seats open. And there are still Senate races left to be decided. Politics- it’s fluid. 
A brief rundown on the seat shifting: 
Hillary Clinton’s Seat
Former President Bill Clinton doesn’t want the spot . Governor David Paterson has taken himself out of contention, as has Robert F. Kennedy Jr (who was rumored to be under consideration for the EPA spot) and Rep. Nita Lowey.  A long list of names are being floated around as a potential replacement- including Andrew …

As dictated in Minnesota state law, the incredibly close Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman is now headed for recount (the first in the state since 1962). Franken’s statement: 
The Secretary of State’s office reports that all but nine of Minnesota’s 4,130 precincts have reported in. And this race is too close to call, with a margin of just about 1100 votes out of 2.9 million cast. That’s four one-hundredths of one percent of the vote. And we expect that when those final nine precincts are counted this morning, …