Here's to the Losers

Candidates lose elections for many different reasons. It is not always easy to identify one decisive factor that turns an election.

But QuestionCow is up to the challenge. We hope you are, too.

Pictured below are fourteen candidates who finished second in U.S. presidential elections in the last eighty years. Through careful analysis of each candidate's name, we have been able to determine the single biggest cause of his defeat. Your task is to think like a cow and match each candidate to the main reason that he failed to win the presidency.

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