Norm Coleman's journey towards acceptance.

As many of you know, Minnesota has the only still unresolved Senate race in the country. It's beginning to look like the state will certify Al Franken the winner. However, Coleman can still challenge that in court. It's been a long few months for Norm. In some ways it seems like he's going through the grieving process. In fact, he seems to be going through the 5 stages of grief. Loosing a Senate seat can be traumatic, here's how Norm has dealt with it. This is satirical and a gross over-simplification... duh.

Claims victory:

Counting every vote is wrong?:

Lost ballots:

Norm begins to lose hope, withdraws challenges:

"Virtually certain" that the result is heading for a court challenge:

Umm... as a disclaimer, Norm Coleman has not killed any hookers that I'm aware of.

So Norm has accepted that he may not win the election by the traditionally accepted method of "getting the most votes". He might have accepted the outcome of the recount, but will he have to grieve all over again in the court battle? Maybe... so it goes.