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Fri 28 Mar 2008 20.14 EDT Hillary Clinton likes to tell her senior aides at times of crisis, Somebody has to win, and somebody has to lose. She is implicitly referring to Barack Obama, but there is a group of people scattered across America for whom the words carry a deeply personal resonance. These are the members of an elite group: the failed would-be presidents club. Only 13 people alive have run for the US presidency in a general election (discounting those who polled less than 2%). Of those, four went all the way to the most powerful job on earth. The remaining nine - five Democrats, one Republican and three third-party candidates - never got to sit behind that desk in the Oval Office. They are the people who know best the toll of running for the White House. They can warn Clinton, Obama and John McCain of the booby traps that lie ahead. They have been the butt of attack ads, have worked around the clock for two years solid, and, whatever their political colours, have share

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