Reply #50: It depends what the contest was.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

If you're talking about "Win the election", then he almost certainly won, but if you're talking about "Become the president of the United States", then he clearly lost, and it was the second one that really counted, unfortunately.

That said, I think he'd probably make a good candidate if the election was in 2006, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if he will in 2008 (I phrase it that way because three years is a very long time indeed in politics).