As President-elect Obama mulls over his potential cabinet choices, including the possibility of Senator John Kerry taking a position, which would set off a political scramble in Massachusetts, there are still ballots to be counted in other races, especially in the Senate.

In Alaska, according to the Anchorage Daily News...

While a Democratic wave swept the rest of the nation, not even FBI investigations could keep Alaska's Republican Congressional delegation from holding leads the day after the election.

Big support from the Matanuska-Susitna Borough gave Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who a jury found guilty of seven felonies last week, a narrow edge over Democrat Mark Begich. Stevens is appealing the verdict.

There are still more than 55,000 votes to be counted in the race, and the outcome won't be known until at least Nov. 14.

In Minnesota, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune...

Sen. Norm Coleman's narrow lead over DFL challenger Al Franken in the U.S. Senate race narrowed even more Wednesday, guaranteeing a recount that would be the state's biggest ever and could stretch well into next month.

Coleman declared victory Wednesday morning, when his unofficial lead over Franken stood at 725 votes out of nearly 2.9 million cast, according to the secretary of state's tally. By the end of the day, as county officials from around the state forwarded adjusted figures to the state, that margin had shrunk to 477 votes...

Recounts are required in races with a winning margin of less than one-half of 1 percent, although a losing candidate may request that it not go forward. Coleman and Franken each received 42 percent of the vote, and Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley got 15 percent.

In Georgia, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...

Fulton County election workers still had about 1,500 absentee ballots to count Thursday morning, but “we can see light at the end of the tunnel,” a spokesman said.

The Fulton ballots were the last to be tallied in Georgia’s election, with the final count in Georgia’s close U.S. Senate race and other elections at stake. The ballots could determine whether Democratic challenger Jim Martin and Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss are forced into a runoff.

In Oregon, according to The Oregonian...

Democrat Jeff Merkley has leapt from Oregon's statehouse to the U.S. Senate, ousting two-term Republican Gordon Smith after an expensive, high-stakes contest that will help shift the balance of power in Washington.

The Oregonian projects that Merkley will squeak by Smith by the time all votes are counted.

If that projection pans out, it puts the Democrats at 57.

In New Hampshire, Republicans are picking up the pieces, but at least they showed a pulse by picking up a few seats in the New Hampshire House.

As for the consequences of the win by Obama and the Democrats on Tuesday...

Andrew Bacevich says it marks the end of an evangelical foreign policy.

Despite talk of the restoration of the "Fairness Doctrine", some believe an Obama Administration will be a boon for Conservative talk radio.

Shelby Steele believes Obama's victory was driven by White guilt.

Rich Lowry says McCain and the GOP lost the political center.

George Will examines the past for clues as to how this might play out in the future.

Finally, while Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats ponder their domestic policy agenda, dark clouds continue to gather on the foreign policy horizon. Could Barack Obama face the same fate of George W. Bush? Elected on a promise of domestic actions, but diverted by pressing foreign policy crises?