they vary across the country. some states would accept those votes. some states would say the sore loser law apollutes. we re not going to count those. i haven t done a separate study, but that would be harder. the number of candidates who get elect ed using a write-in campaign for major national office is slim to none. why do we have sore loser laws? sore loser laws are designed about 100 years ago or so, and they kind of protect the party nominees from somebody who lost this a political party primary and says, you want to run in the general any way. the idea if you lost, you lost. you don t get a second bite of the aptal and won a primary. i would argue they are outdated to the extent they served a useful purpose. where gal up says 42% of the count truss regards themselves as independent, they are a lot of us who get shut out of the
beating pretile detained. so it is an absolute failure by the district attorney s office but also by the judge and no matter what the judge was doing no judge to exercise discretion to let this guy go out and conduct what he did on the streets the other day. this is exactly why you end up with mandatory sentencing i m a three-time loser laws. as much as judges ask for discretion and say trust me, i have. you have high profile where they failed the community. shannon: it is absolutely heartbreaking for the families and loved ones. i want to get you to commit what is going on in san francisco major looting in the bay area, multiple stores but meanwhile check voting i m outraged by the union square and several crimes across the country but simple message don t bring that noise to our city, great work, stand by for charges. that is your neck of the wood so i will let you take a first
it is not a typical insult. let s talk about the sole sore loser laws. although this document is not legally binding, let congress let kanye do that, but not really important states are presidential elections. they have sore loser laws. i don t like the idea of the rnc coming out and saying you always loyalty. i would owe my loyalty to my own principal to what i stand for. maybe they should sign a pledge saying they have loyalty to limited government principles. i find that notion, what if the candidate winds up being pataki or someone that you don t want to vote for. you don t want to put your support behind. it s a bunch of nonsense.
incentive system works, it s not the people of your state, louisiana, this case, who are going to decide. it s the people who show up in the primary, a small number of people, and most states have sore loser laws. so if you run in the primary, very popular in the state, but can t win your primary, then you can t run in the fall. they call them sore loser laws? yeah. that s great. the american approval ratings of congress, i found this, particularly given our last conversation about post 9/11, i found this really interesting. right now at a minimum, you see how low we are, but that height, that little spike of an 84% approval rating, occurs around the beginning of 2002, which says to me that is the post 9/11 spike, when american congress is getting a lot done, but that the things that they are getting done are things i wouldn t necessarily be supportive of, restrictions of civil liberties, so when i saw that, i thought,