Possible Questions:
- Loser
- Slowpoke
- Nonwinner
- Trailer
- Runner-up
- Election loser
- Campaign loser
- Losing candidate
- Horse back in the pack
- Consolation prize recipient
- Not a winner
- Long shot, usually
- Concession speech giver
- The hare, notably
- Perot, e.g.
- One who's back in the pack
- Late finisher
- Ineffectual competitor
- Dewey in 1948
- Candidate who lost
- #2 or #3, say
- #2 or #3
- Winner's follower
- Unsuccessful person
- Tilden in 1876
- Third-place finisher, e.g.
- Third-party candidate, more often than not
- The hare, e.g., in "The Tortoise and the Hare"
- Stevenson in 1952 and 1956, e.g.
- Ross Perot, in 1992 and 1996
- Person in second place
- Out-of-the-money finisher
- One who didn't make it to the office?
- One who didn't get in
- One who can't get a seat
- One that didn't show?
- One not seated?
- Not a marathon winner
- Miss Congeniality, e.g.
- Minor-party candidate
- Mere participant
- Lame duck, often
- Inferior one
- Horse named on a crumpled betting slip
- Horse back in the pack, e.g.
- He didn't win, place or show
- Fourth-place finisher
- Election loser, e.g.
- Defeatee
- Concession speech deliverer
- Competitor who didn't win
- Chronic loser
- Bottom-line horse
- Big-A laggard
- Aqueduct trailer
- Another finisher
- Anderson or Carter in 1980
- #3 or #4, say