Show, Don't Tell.

It wasn't a very near win, at all. We were both seniors at the only high school in our small town. Jack Harrow was the popular one, the one that everybody wanted to know, while I was just 'that kid'. I guess I knew that I was going to lose from the beginning, but you can't blame me for trying, right? The elections began at the beginning of the school year, and Jack and I were the only applicants. Right away I began to advertise for myself around the school, but it was all in vain. Every time I put up a flyer, it dissapeared. Every time that I hung up a poster, it was vandalized. Every time that I tried to convince people to vote for me, I was ignored. I didn't understand at first, but then I found out that it had been Jack's doing all along. He and all his friends had ruined my efforts and somehow convinced everybody, even my friends, to vote for him. I had worked so hard and done so much to win that election, while he had done nothing. I should have won, he didn't deserve it.