sentences:  However, because Thompson was serving an unusual two-year term as governor—and had thus been in office only nine months when Bakalis began his campaign, Bakalis had difficulty challenging the incumbent's record; he lost the election by a margin of 59 to 40.After his unsuccessful bid for governorship, Bakalis served as a Deputy Undersecretary in the United States Department of Education of the Jimmy Carter administration from 1980 to 1982, where he administered ten regional offices.In 1988, he managed the Illinois campaign of Michael Dukakis' bid for the Presidency of the United States.