According to the MN Star-Tribune, Norm Coleman presently leads by 147 votes, which represents a gain of 68 votes for Al Franken, with 50% of the vote having been counted. The Secretary of State's official total had Franken having gained 86 votes on Coleman through the end of yesterday.
The votes recounted in the first two days have had a slight Republican lean (the 43+% of the vote counted through the end of yesterday had Coleman up by 39,000+ votes, meaning that Franken will win the remaining votes to be counted by a similar amount), so I am optimistic that there may be more votes to be gained in the precincts remaining to be counted in that the sample is going to be more DFL/Democratic.
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