[SJackson]

Not saying the attempt wasn't made to some extent, but Jeb was a failure. Jeb was never a contender, despite his money. Not going to bother checking old polls, but I don't think he was ever in the top 5. A broad field like the GOP has should have been tailor made for a candidate with name recognition and money. Jeb was incompetent, to whatever extent there was a plot, the plotters were incompetent.

We might disagree on rigged, to me "mainstream" Republicans attempting to elect a "mainstream" Republican candidate isn't rigged, just politics as usual. And they lost. Rigged to me is when the dead people in Chicago vote in three different precincts.

[grania]

I disagree. It’s rigged. When there’s so little connection between who wins and who the delegates are, it’s intentionally open to abuse. “Politics as usual” just doesn’t cut it with US citizens anymore, both political parties.