Never give up. Some of the country's highest leaders lost at least once...But did not quit...

• Romney would not be the first man elected to the White House with prior election losses. In fact, he would be the eighth in a row. 
• Barack Obama ran unsuccessfully for a House seat in 2000 (if you care), 
• as did George W. Bush in 1978. 
• Bill Clinton lost a 1974 House race and his first re-election as governor of Arkansas, in 1980. (He made a comeback two years later.) 
• George H.W. Bush lost a Senate race in 1970 and was an unsuccessful candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 1980.
•  Ronald Reagan failed to win the Republican nomination in both 1968 and 1976. 
• Jimmy Carter lost his first bid to become Georgia's governor, in 1966.
•  Richard Nixon was defeated for the presidency in 1960 and the California governorship in 1962.
•  Lyndon Johnson lost a special election for the Senate in 1941.