Republican candidate Carly Fiorina on election night, 2010
LOSER
In 2008, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said most politicians were not qualified to run a major corporation. The reverse is now true: CEOs can't run campaigns. Fiorina failed in her California Senate bid, ex–eBay CEO Meg Whitman lost the gubernatorial race by double digits, and Linda McMahon, who ran World Wrestling Entertainment, tapped out in the Connecticut Senate contest.