But the unresolved election has provided a negative backdrop.
The ads are as pointed as they are sophisticated, portraying the pursuit of success in business as a battle to be as fiercely fought as, say, an unresolved presidential election.
Mr. Dortch said he wanted to remind his listeners that many of the day-to-day struggles and travails of the temporal world -- even those associated with an unresolved presidential election -- wither into minutiae in the larger universe of God and faith.
"The unresolved election in Italy was commonly cited as a key factor clouding the economic outlook in March, and the botched bail-out of Cyprus could well filter through to a further worsening of business sentiment across the region in April".
Other therapists said the unresolved election played into patients' anxieties about their country and themselves.
However, unresolved election disputes have often triggered long-term internal conflicts.
With the unresolved election dragging into its sixth day, both sides agreed that Florida's 25 electoral votes would determine the presidency, but they agreed on little else.
President Clinton, visiting Vietnam, told CNN that the United States did not need "all this hand wringing" over the unresolved election and added, "Everybody ought to just relax and let the process play out".
Justice Seewald is also hearing arguments in another unresolved election case, that one involving Mr. Espada's father, State Senator Pedro Espada Jr., and his challenger, City Councilman Ruben Diaz Jr. Shortly after the primary, the Board of Elections said that Mr. Diaz had defeated the senator by 113 votes.
Coleman knows that there are ways to continue delaying his departure from this race, but he will also come to realize that the people advising him to prolong Minnesota"s longest unresolved election are not the ones he should be listening to.
Unless yesterday's still unresolved elections result in Republican control of both houses of Congress, the 2002 midterm elections won't matter much in Washington.
