# In Recent Cycles, What's the Latest Someone's Entered the Nomination Race and Strongly Contended?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [July 8, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-recent-cycles-whats-the-latest-someones-entered-the-nomination-race-and-strongly-contended/588300 "2011-07-08T13:04:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Recovering\_Republican](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@Recovering\_Republican](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recovering_Republican)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-recent-cycles-whats-the-latest-someones-entered-the-nomination-race-and-strongly-contended/588300/37 "2011-07-10T13:02:41Z")

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Seems to me the rules are selectively enforced, since I get insulted about 10 times a day here… and no one seems to ever get a ‘warning’ about it.

I should also point out that most of the posts I added to this thread ARE on topic. Other folks are the ones who are going nuts over throwaway lines.

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