I am not an expert on the Senate, but am I correct in the following:

[Padfoot]

It appears that Begich (D) now has a 3,000+ vote lead over Stevens (R) with only 2,500 votes left to be counted.  If the count is correct (and it probably is) the Senate now stands at 56-40-2-2 with the races in Minnesota and Georgia yet to be resolved.

One down, two to go for the Democrats.

However, it should be noted that several GOP moderates still remain in the Senate despite the recent purge in their ranks in the last couple of elections.  Therefore, it should not be too terribly difficult for the Democrats to move forward on many of the issues they want to get through.  I'd go so far as to say that there are enough GOP Senators friendly to the Democrats that a 2/3 majority isn't out of the question on some issues.