Oberweis, a millionaire investor and dairy-farm owner, has a proud history of miserable failure in elections. Here's a run-down:

- 2002: Oberweis runs for the U.S. Senate in Illinois. He finishes a distant second in the Republican primary to Jim Durkin, a Congressman whose Senate candidacy was based entirely on the hope that voters would confuse his last name with incumbent Senator Dick Durbin's. Durbin wins in a landslide.

- 2004: Oberweis again tries his luck for the Senate, this time run for the open seat vacated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald. He places second in the Republican primary to wealthy banker Jack Ryan, who quickly becomes embroiled in a sordid sex scandal. Amazingly, the Illinois Republican Party declines to tap Oberweis to fill in as the GOP nominee, instead turning to Marylander Alan Keyes, who goes on to lose to Barack Obama, 70% to 27%.

- 2006: Oberweis figures that he should try for a more local office and throws his hat into the Illinois Governor's race. Once again, he comes in second in the GOP primary, this time to state treasurer Judy Topinka, who goes on to lose the general election to the scandal-ridden incumbent Governor Rod Blagojevich.

- 2008: Oberweis enters the special election to replace retired Republican Congressman Dennis Hastert in a rural, conservative Illinois district. Incredibly, he wins the Republican primary (nice work, Jim!) but goes on to lose the deep-red seat to Democrat Bill Foster.

Currently, Oberweis is gearing up for a rematch against Foster in the November election. Pundits are already declaring him … you guessed it … the loser!