1.   And his ticket lost the race, too.

2.   Bush also has to think long and hard about what happens if a Bush-McCain ticket loses to the Democrats.

3.   If the ticket loses, Kemp might have momentum three years later.

4.   Republicans had long since decided that the Dole-Kemp ticket would lose.

5.   The Ford-Dole ticket lost.

6.   The Mondale-Ferraro ticket lost resoundingly, amid questions about whether she had hurt the ticket rather than helped it.

7.   Thus he is running for two offices at once, a fail-safe approach that almost certainly guarantees him a Senate seat in case the Democratic presidential ticket loses.

8.   When the Democratic presidential ticket lost to George Bush and Dan Quayle, Bentsen still had his Senate seat.