Posted on 04/15/2016 10:26:25 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Wyoming is also a scam like Colorado. 900 party leaders voted for the delegates in that caucus. Total scam. People has no say in the voting.
You betcha!
If they’re all just “voting” today in Wyoming, how come some delegates are already awarded according to http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/R-PU.phtml .Trump has “one” and Cruz has nine. 14 are just hangin chad?
Just saw the same numbers on CNN. Is the Wyoming debacle over already?
The Wyoming Republican Party delegate selection plan is more like Colorado’s than anything else. Registered Republicans with lots of time and money to follow each step of the lengthy process are more likely to be activists within the state party than general republicans interested in the presidential race. That has an impact on turnout and eventually the outcome of the delegate selection process. This grants the state party much more control over the process.
But this caucus is less open then Colorado. Wyoming Republican delegates will be bound to the presidential candidate to whom they have pledged heading into the conventions where those delegates are chosen. By having only approved committee vote for the delegates, the party is ensured their choice as opposed to the popular vote.
Note: It’s interesting how some states changed their rules to exclude lots of voters: The last polling (summer) in Wyoming had Jeb Bush in the lead. Bush-Cheney-> Wyoming! ... Realizing they nearly lost 2012 to Rick, they decided to play a much different game for 2016.
2012 Primary Election results
Mitt Romney.........822.......38.99%.... 11
Rick Santorum......679.......31.93%...... 8
Ron Paul...............439.......20.83%...... 6
Newt Gingrich.......165.........7.83%...... 2
Others.....................9..........0.43%...... 0
2016
275,000 Registered republican voters
980 Committeeman choose the delegates.
.03 % of the eligible voters choose the President
34% Cruz, 4% Rubio, 4% Trump
Wyoming already chose 12 of the delegates and will choose the other 17.
16 February - 1 March 2016: Precinct Caucuses. Candidates for delegates to the county conventions declare their presidential preference (including undecided).
12 March 2016: The County Conventions meet over several days to choose 12 of 29 of Wyoming’s delegates to the Republican National Convention.
Approximately 980 (?) County precinct committeemen are eligible to vote for the National Convention Delegates and Alternates at the County Conventions. Wyoming has 23 counties grouped into 12 Delegate-Districts. Laramie, the county that cast the most votes of any county for the Republican candidate for Congress in the general election immediately preceding the National Convention, selects both a Delegate and an Alternate. State Party by-laws require that each delegate must inform the convention of which presidential candidate, if any, they would cast their vote for at the national convention. [Bylaws of the Wyoming Republican Party Article VI.8.11]
14 April - 16 April 2016: The Wyoming State Republican Convention convenes in Cheyenne. On Saturday 16 April, the State Convention chooses the remaining 17 of Wyoming’s delegates to the Republican National Convention.
The 3 party leader delegates, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Wyoming’s Republican Party will attend the convention as unpledged delegates by virtue of their position.
Too bad that doesn't happen in the General election
This B.S. narrative is the finger in the dam before the GOPe and thier latest tools (Cruz & Kaisich) are washed away in Trump mental.
This B.S. narrative is the finger in the dam before the GOPe and thier latest tools (Cruz & Kaisich) are washed away in Trump mental.
Trump is the most anti conservative RNC nominee in decades
Cruz is a solid conservative
Wyoming is controlled by the Cheney Crime Family. Trump doesn’t stand a chance, as the GOPe wants Cruz.
Hilarious. The GOPe is handing delegates to its golden boy Teddy. This "ground game" propaganda is just Kabuki theater.
I don’t think it would have mattered. The republican “state” party reps are loyal to whoever the gop tells them to be loyal to. At the moment, that happens to be Cruz. It is not HIS ground game that is dominant, it is the gop’s. Does anyone really think that if Cruz were ahead that these same delegates wouldn’t be going to Kasich? If Bush, Rubio, Walker were in the race those delegates would go to them to put them over the top. Now they are merely being used to just STOP a candidate, not elect one.... well at least until the convention, then we’ll find out what they’ve really been up to.
>>Is your position that Wyoming is ‘rigged’, or rather is it the case that it was a case of clear rules that needed to be addressed by campaign operatives starting back some months ago? I would really love to hear your sentiment on that.
Its not rigged. Many of us are just taken by surprise that these states that usually don’t matter have such arcane procedures for choosing their delegates.
Trump’s people should have known this and prepared better. But, remember that these states rarely matter. They really don’t matter this time, except that the Party will use Trump’s delegate count that is a little short of the 1237 as their cue to drop in the Designated Loser. They usually let the leftist media do the heavy lifting on that, but this time they have to do it themselves.
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