Sore loser election laws?

[Johnnybags]

Anyone know what would happen if RP did not get the Repub nomination yet, the LP and Consititution party drafted him anyway? Seems after reading this below, it does not apply to Pres elections in most states and the others that say it does its unconstitutional?


http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/07/20/do-sore-loser-laws-apply-to-presidential-candidates/

[expatriot]

Observe whether our candidate actually files the papers in Texas/Ohio.

The more days go by without filing as a Republican candidate the closer
we get to becoming the 3rd party in the general election

[Feelgood]

Does not really matter, Ron Paul is not interested in running as a third party candidate, and has already said if he does not get the Republican nomination, he will not continue to run. So this thread is actually moot.

[hueylong]

We're already on the Ballot in Ohio. And, nothing stops us from going as far as June in the Republican process, and then going 3rd Party.

Dr. Paul has to say he won't run 3rd party -- but if the supporters want it, I'd bet he will.

[Bradley in DC]

The Ballot Access News site has discussed this a lot. Good find.

In short, the sore loser laws do not apply to the presidential electors to the Electoral College (we don't vote directly for president in our Republic, we're not a democracy).

Some of these laws were tested by John Anderson in 1980. He won them all.

[MayTheRonBeWithYou]

Such laws would never hold up in federal court anyway for a presidential race. Anderson and Perot blew a lot of stupid hurdles out of the way decades ago with fierce legal battles that paved the way for an RP run. :)

[nate895]

Such laws would never hold up in federal court anyway for a presidential race. Anderson and Perot blew a lot of stupid hurdles out of the way decades ago with fierce legal battles that paved the way for an RP run. :)

Maybe Anderson, Perot, and Paul were in cahoots this whole time, waiting for us to win.

Anderson=10%, Perot=20%, Paul=30 or 40%? (if 30%, who knows who's next).

[SwooshOU]

Unless I'm mistaken, Ron Paul has never said he wouldn't run as a third party candidate. He has always said (at least when I've seen him) that it "isn't his intention" to run as a third party candidate. That obviously leaves the door open to run.