This is fair.
Just ask Fidel Castro or Kim Jong Un.
Posted on 04/11/2016 1:59:17 PM PDT by justlittleoleme
“All Colorado Republicans [registered more than a month] could vote in precinct caucuses, which chose delegates to congressional and state conventions, who voted for national delegates.” That’s my (unabbreviated) Tweet summarizing the way that Colorado Republicans chose delegates to the national Republican Convention. I should know; as a Colorado Republican I participated in the caucuses.
But apparently, for some Trump supporters, my experience participating in the caucus process is no match for a Drudge headline claiming it never happened. As of the evening of April 10, Drudge claimed on its main page, “Fury as Colorado has no primary or caucus; Cruz celebrates voterless victory.”
So let’s set the facts straight, beginning with my own experiences with the caucus system.
After long being an unaffiliated voter, I registered as a Republican voter late last year, in part so that I could participate in Colorado’s Republican caucus system this year. (I plan to remain a Republican, barring an unforeseen major shift in the political scene.) I looked up how to participate in my precinct caucus on March 1, showed up, participated in the meeting, and successfully ran as an alternate delegate to the county convention on March 19 and to the state convention on April 9.
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A completely fair headline of what happened this year would have been, “Colorado Republicans Select Presidential Delegates the Same Way They Did Last Time.” But the reality of the situation is so much more boring that the trumped up version of it.
(Excerpt) Read more at ariarmstrong.com ...
Read the darn article.
Yep. We went to the precinct caucus. We elected delegates. But we NEVER talked about candidates the delegates intended to support. Didn't matter because they weren't bound to anything anyway.
The GOPe doesn’t want the American voter to count...They know that Trump would win the nomination AND defeat Hillary and their ‘gravy train” would be derailed...
We, the people, mean nothing to them other than their meal ticket...
This is not the Forum for GOP Establishment Spin
Maybe Cruz ought not get too comfortable with those delegates. They may be challenged.
“Another issue that could lead to a challenge by Trump is the fact that Trump actually won at least one straw poll vote earlier this year, and these results could be binding.
National Republican rules state that if Colorado held a straw poll, delegates would be bound to the candidate for whom they voted. That’s one reason Colorado Republicans decided against having a straw poll–in addition to concerns that too many people would show up.
But some Colorado precincts held straw polls anyway, arguably flouting the rules, calling the straw-poll votes symbolic. But straw polls are arguably by definition. And holding them could have violated GOP rules.
Trump didn’t win all of the straw polls held in Colorado, but he won at least one of them, in Adams County, according to a report in The Denver Post.
So Trump’s possible challenge at the national convention could also include questions delegates he should have won due to the symbolic straw-poll process.”
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Note: The GOP national rules also state that if any state delegate selection process violates the national rules, the penalty is the disqualification of 1/2 of that state’s delegates. So, ironically, the fact that some precincts went “rogue” and held straw poles not authorized by the August change in the rules might constitute a violation of the national rules, and result in a forfeiture of 1/2 of the state’s 30 delegates.
Bring on the lawyers.
“... Donald just isn’t very popular in Colorado...”
How is this known??? The public wasn’t allowed to vote...
Now, if you say they were, give us the overall vote totals...
Read the article.
I read the article...I did NOT see any total public vote count for the Colorado Caucus...
Please give me the total number of actual votes for Trump and the total number of actual votes for Cruz in the state of Colorado.
Yep....seems we are playing a "repeat" performance of "Sore Loserman".
I really don’t know where one would go to retrieve the records of the votes on each of the Colorado delegates. I do not even know if such record would reveal which candidate each voter supported.
The population of the state of Colorado is 5.356 million...I know not all can vote, but I would expect at least 1.5 million votes combined...
Yeah... I doubt any such record exists either...LOL
Not that long really. Colorado only went from a primary to caucus system in 2004 and this is the first year without a presidential poll of any kind which is a process practically unheard of in any state in in any past election cycle. Which explains the attention it is getting.
I'm not complaining about the process, any process can be manipulated by the players. But the rationale in the article doesn't (and can't, really) explore the sentiment of the Colorado voters who lean republican. And I'm not saying it SHOULD either. Fact of the matter is that the party prefers #NotTrump, and if it had it's way, today, it would reject any delegate who was pro-Trump. That is the party's preference.
The present difficulty arises because the party has been selling the fiction that the party would "gladly" accept the popular choice. When that fiction contradicts the true party preference (for a faithful insider), the party is stuck between defending or continuing to sell the fiction (it is a party reflecting the will of its members viewed as voters), and defending the reality.
He's Astro turfing but there is no there "there."
“The present difficulty arises because the party has been selling the fiction that the party would “gladly” accept the popular choice. “
While doing everything humanly possible to undermine the will of the voter.
This is fair.
Just ask Fidel Castro or Kim Jong Un.
“We did it. #nevertrump
So, because you want Trump to win, you want to undermine the will of the Republicans who did show up and voted? I guess that’s OK as long as it benefits Trump.
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