Saxby Chambliss' victory last night in the Georgia Senate runoff killed the Democrats' dream of entering the new Congress with a filibuster proof majority.  The dream of achieving 59 seats is still alive with the ongoing drama in the Minnesota recount.  With 93% of ballots recounted, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune pegs Norm Coleman's lead at 303 votes. However, the Star-Trib reports:

The day's other news -- which Franken's campaign quickly described as a "breakthrough" -- came when Ritchie's office asked local election officials to examine an estimated 12,000 rejected absentee ballots and determine whether their rejection fell under one of four reasons for rejection defined in state law. The Secretary of State's office asked that ballots that were rejected for something other than the four legal reasons be placed into a so-called "fifth category."

The fifth category, Ritchie's office said, could also include absentee ballots rejected for reasons that were "not based on factual information."

The canvassing board is set to finalize the results on December 16, though the dispute over the rejected absentee ballots could drag on well past then.