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    Oct 2008
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    Help with the proper term for someone who doesn't get elected president.

    Hi, I need some help with something. I know that if someone gets elected they are called "President Elect", until they actually become the President. Is there a term for someone who runs for President, but loses? Do they just go back to they're original title? Thanks for any help.
    later,
    1996

  2. #2
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    Re: Help with the proper term for someone who doesn't get elected president.





    Perhaps "loser."


    have a good un....
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    Re: Help with the proper term for someone who doesn't get elected president.

    How about "also-ran" - ?

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    Re: Help with the proper term for someone who doesn't get elected president.

    I have noticed that some of the presidential candidates are referred to as a "former presidential candidate" well after they run for office. I guess it sometimes depends on how close they came to winning the election too.

    DANGLANGLEY
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    Oct 2008
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    Re: Help with the proper term for someone who doesn't get elected president.

    Thanks everybody.

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    Re: Help with the proper term for someone who doesn't get elected president.

    I can think of LOTS of names ...

    I guess it's a matter of perspective.

  7. #7
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    Oct 2008
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    Re: Help with the proper term for someone who doesn't get elected president.

    Awwhell?

    Got the picture assembled, but my camera ain't working tip top at the moment, so You'll have to wait until Christmas to see the finished product. I'm really happy about how it turned out. It says "Former Presidential Candidate X X XX X X X X X X X X XXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXX 1996 - 2007". He's XXXXXXX a XXXX XXXXXX in the picture, and there is a XXX XXXXXXXXXX mounted underneath the picture.

    thanks again,
    1996

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    Indiana
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    Re: Help with the proper term for someone who doesn't get elected president.

    wannabe is one term but the guy who ran for decades including while he was in prison for fraud Lindon LaRouch was always called perrenial-presidential candidate LL. siegfried schlagrule
    "We have done so much; for so many; for so long; with so little; that pretty soon we'll be able to do anything; with nothing at all."
    my unit motto - 138th Aviation Company -  224th Aviation Battalion - Phu Bai, I Corps, Republic of Vietnam - 1972
    Siegfried Schlagrule

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    Re: Help with the proper term for someone who doesn't get elected president.

    In this case, I think the term is "fortunate."
    A gentleman farmer named Floyd
    With some of his kin was annoyed
    The boys in their youth
    Did not know the truth
    And one of his tools was destroyed

 

 

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