101.   Sharp, the former Texas comptroller, lost a race for lieutenant governor last year.

102.   She also lost a race for Congress from southern Illinois.

103.   She will probably face former Rep. James M. Talent, a Republican who narrowly lost the race for governor last year.

104.   She says she never lost a race.

105.   Smith also lost a race for state representative.

106.   Some of the Democrats who have used the issue so far, in California and New Mexico, for example, lost their races.

107.   Still, for some candidates who lost their races last week but whose campaigns are relatively intact, the opportunity is tempting.

108.   The best thing that ever happened to Ed Parker was losing his race for re-election as sheriff of Orange County.

109.   The former Democratic senator lost a race for state treasurer and was forced from the Legislature by term limits.

110.   The last four Derby winners lost their races right before the Derby.