I'm not sure why this is, but the Minnesota secretary of state's election results website shows Coleman doing better than CNN's website does: With 95 percent of precincts reporting the Republican senator is up by 11,000 votes. If the CNN map is to be trusted, the bad news is that the uncounted precincts seem to be concentrated in St. Paul and the Iron Range in northeast Minnesota, both areas that skew Democratic. Update: With 96 percent of precincts in the MN secretary of state's website shows Coleman with 1,146,415 votes to Franken's 1,134,876. But CNN has Franken in the lead, edging out Coleman 1,158,271 to 1,157,326. It doesn't make sense that CNN would have better information than Minnesota's elections division. This is pure speculation, but maybe CNN is counting absentee ballots.