Minnesota's contested governor's race finally has a winner as the GOP candidate conceded Wednesday. Tom Emmer ended his bid for the governor's mansion from his home in Delano. Emmer thanked supporters for helping him come within 87-hundred votes of electing "a common-sense conservative" to lead the North Star State. State election workers were automatically forced to recount more than two-million ballots after Democrat Mark Dayton came out with a narrow point-five-percent lead over Emmer in the November 2nd gubernatorial election. The state canvassing board was due to finish the recount today. Dayton is a former U.S. senator and heir to the Dayton's department store fortune. He will become Minnesota's first Democratic governor in more than 20 years.