“In 1858 the Illinois legislature—using an obscure statute—sent Stephen A. Douglas to the U.S. Senate instead of Abraham Lincoln, although Lincoln had won the popular vote. When a sympathetic friend asked Lincoln how he felt, he said, ‘Like the boy who stubbed his toe: I am too big to cry and too badly hurt to laugh.’” Max Lucado, “God Came Near,” Multnomah Press, 1987, page 57.