Now that Obama has sewn up the presidency, let's swing over to the Senate races and the Dem quest for a filibuster-proof 60 seats. Here's the state of play: The Dems have so far picked up five Senate seats, with a few still up in the air -- but they probably won't reach that magic super-majority.

• In Colorado, a former Republican-leaning state, Democrat Mark Udall picked up the seat of retiring GOP Sen. Wayne Allard. With 49% reporting, Udall has 54% to Republican nominee Bob Schaffer's 42%.

• In New Hampshire, which has realigned from the Republicans to the Democrats over the last few years, former Dem Gov. Jeanne Shaheen defeated incumbent GOPer John Sununu, in a rematch from Sununu's win in 2002. With 54% reporting, Shaheen has 52% to Sununu's 45%.

• In North Carolina, atheist-baiting GOP Sen. Elizabeth Dole has gone down in crushing defeat. With 94% reporting, Democratic victor Kay Hagan has 53% to Dole's 44%.

• In New Mexico, Democrat Tom Udall -- a first cousin of Colorado's Sen.-Elect Mark Udall -- easily won the seat of retiring GOP Sen. Pete Domenici With 42% reporting, Udall has 59% to GOP Rep. Steve Pearce's 41%.

• In the newly-blue state of Virginia, former Dem Gov. Mark Warner easily dispatched former GOP Gov. Jim Gilmore for the seat of retiring GOP Sen. John Warner (no relation to Mark). With 93% reporting, Mark Warner has 64% to Gilmore's 35%.

The Republicans also missed out on their one true pickup opportunity, but by a much closer margin than anyone had expected. With 91% reporting, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) has defeated Republican candidate John Kennedy by a margin of 50%-48%. The pre-election polls has given Landrieu double-digit leads -- making this race a real what-might-have-been for the NRSC, if they'd only invested more money in this race instead of some of the losing campaigns listed above.

A few more races are pending:

• In Minnesota, the early exit polls have given Al Franken an advantage over GOP Sen. Norm Coleman, but this one is going down to the wire. With 40% reporting, the two are tied at 42% each, with 15% to third-party candidate Dean Barkley.

• In Oregon, GOP Sen. Gordon Smith is trailing Dem challenger Jeff Merkley by a 50%-45% margin, with an estimated 31% of the total ballots counted under Oregon's mail-in voting system.

• The polls are still open in Alaska, where GOP Senator and convicted felon Ted Stevens is expected to lose to Democratic opponent Mark Begich, the mayor of Anchorage. A Begich win would be a major coup in this deep-red state.

• There still has not been a declared result in Georgia. With 87% reporting, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R) has 55% to Dem challenger Jim Martin's 41% -- but Chambliss' real opponent is the 50% threshold. If late returns put Chambliss under 50%, there will have to be a runoff held a month from now.

If the Dems can sweep Minnesota, Oregon and Alaska, the final tally for tonight will be a gain of eight seats -- for 59 Democratic Senators to 41 Republicans, assuming Joe Lieberman sticks with the Dem caucus. But that's another story.