NEWT PLEASE RUN AS A THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE

[Jim Lane]

17. I'm not sure the "sore loser" laws apply here.

The reason is the technicality that, on Election Day, neither Ron Paul nor any other Presidential candidate is elected to anything. Paul would be asking people to vote for a slate of electors pledged to him. Those candidates for the post of Elector would not have run and lost in any primary.

Of course, the practical reality is that voters will be voting for Obama or Romney or Paul or Johnson or whoever else seeks the Presidency, so maybe the "sore loser" laws would be invoked without regard to the Electoral College.

I don't know whether this has ever been litigated.