Posted on 04/11/2016 12:40:16 PM PDT by Hojczyk
It would all work out just fine if #2 would be willing to shut up and acknowledge they’re not what the people want, but that’s not “principled” I guess.
No let's play fascist propaganda maker and demand Trump gets the nomination based on a plurality of votes and delegates because that is fair! If not, burn the place down!
I recall a movement used that these tactic to seize power in the 1930's??? who where they?
After NY he will be mathematically eliminated ... perhaps he will call on himself to get out of the race ... like he called for Kasich to get out once he could no longer get to 1237.
Yes, I realize Trump has a slightly less than two million more votes than Cruz. But I'm not at this point declaring Cruz the choice of the 'people' either.
Call: That’s exactly right. While the caucus votes we’ve held in previous elections in 2008 and 2012 were always straw polls, they didn’t bind or allocate the delegations. They at least were a snapshot into where voter sentiment is in the state of Colorado, and the decision by the state Republican Party to cancel that vote taken in connection with the caucus really did cut out any semblance of democracy or the popular will in connection with the delegate election event. It became an entire party insiders game with getting delegates to go to county assemblies in the state convention. While Colorado has over a million registered Republican voters, the only votes that really counted were that of the 3,900 delegates that gathered down in Colorado Springs.
http://www.realclearpolitics.c...
Lyin’ Ted Cruz Family Value CON-servative = Cheat, Deceit, sleazy, nasty.
It’s not cheating, it’s winning. - Rush Limbaugh
I dont want to be a part of that charade you advocate.
http://www.coloradoindependent.com/156936/colorado-republican-caucuses
The above is a pretty good explanation. The Colorado Republican caucus was held on March 1. From another post by the GOP chair he said they don’t have the system in place to do a formal votes. So it sounds like it is more of a raise your hand type thing to elect the delegates. And because it isn’t a formal vote, the delegates are not bound to any one candidate as they leave the caucus.
Straw polls about who the delegates may like may have been taken at some locations, but they are not binding. But, people were “elected” in some fashion to go on to the state convention.
At some point I need to re-learn how the early process of nominations went. But iirc it was the local politicians, already elected by the people, and deemed to have good judgement in what was best for their community - they were the ones that got together and caucused for a nominee. And then selected a few delegates out of their “wise” group to represent them at the state.
The first primary wasn’t until in 1910 in Oregon, and pushed by the Progressive Party. The primary process became a lot bigger for the Republicans after 1972 iirc as we tried to follow what the Democrats had done.
At this point I'm afraid we should expect a Clinton-Kasich race. Nice going everyone.
GOP Machine: "Mission accomplished! High fives, everyone!"
Just like Iowa, right?
So you think the delegates should nominate the candidate with the least amount of votes earned? It’s the same logic.
> If less, after 1st ballot, you don’t own them any longer.
And that’s how Ted Cruz gave the election to Hillery. Ted Cruz should go back and read up on Pyrrhic victories.
Cruz has 100% from states that don't allow their people to vote.
If all delegates were doled out proportionate to the vote in all 50 states the race would be one helluvalot closer than it currently is. Trump ought to thank the rules for being 200 delegates in front.
>He fills 12,000 seats stadiums and thinks he doesn’t have to do the work to secure the delegates he needs. So when Cruz does the work, Trump automatically calls foul.
Yep robbery is such hard work. Maybe someday Cruz will find honest work like convincing the voters to vote him in larger numbers.
Is that the new Cruz/GOPe talking point ?
You and Don are Cruzbots together
Pretty funny actually
I’m Trump but have your fun
>It would be uphill for Cruz, as well. (and getting harder as the rhetoric ratchets up) But because of his astronomical and still-rising negative rating Trump absolutely cannot.
Cruz is 5 points behind Trump negative rating the media has even started on him.
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