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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.

And welcome to the politics guys with your hosts, Dave Carson and Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are.

And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist, Jay Carson.

Here's this week's Ask the Politics Guys question, Jay.

All right.

A while ago, Mike said that he was running for president.

Yeah, I remember that.

And in fact, I am. The question is,

what are his positions on the issues and can people actually vote for him? And finally, Jay,

if Mike were a real candidate, would you vote for him? That was a pretty good question. There's sort of an implication there in that question. Yeah. So the can people actually vote for me? The answer to that is it depends. Only seven

states don't allow write-in candidates for president, Arkansas, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.

People have been disenfranchised. Yeah. Well, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. Those people have been disenfranchised.

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