Points were deducted for every failed candidate or batch of candidates.

Some but not all state boards allow a failed candidate to file a score appeal where the candidate can review the examination section and challenge the response.

Therefore, a failed candidate who files timely financial statements would lose $250.

Al Sharpton is a freelance civil rights activist who's reinventing himself as a professional failed candidate for high office.

He was a failed candidate for the position as Rogaland's county mayor, and deputy county mayor, several times.

He was apparently a failed candidate for the Coptic Papacy.

She was a perpetual winner in campaigns for class secretary, he a failed candidate for president.

And adopting the policy of the failed candidate in the SDLP eleection.

Mr. Faso is a former upstate assemblyman and a failed candidate for comptroller in 2002.

THERE are few things as totally over as a failed presidential candidate.