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Originally Posted by Valentine
Depending upon what you mean by legitimate run, Jesse Jackson in 1984 won 5 primaries and got over 18% of the total vote. He did twice as good in 1998 winning 11 primaries and about doubled his vote total. Are those legitimate runs, that can be debated.
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Eh, I took 'a legitimate run' to mean either a presidential candidate or a party leader.
I don't think people who never actually ran for office but did quite well in the contest to select who would run can be counted as having had a real chance at the job because it was never actually put to a public test.