Posted on 04/16/2016 9:38:54 AM PDT by Dana1960
Looks like Colorado knows how to hold a regular primary, when it wants to. They have one on June 28, 2016 for every office EXCEPT PRESIDENT. From the Senate on down. Sounds like regular voters are allowed to register their opinion on this election, without voting for blind delegates, evidently.
Your thoughts?
Colorado Republican can find out where your party leadership lives. Probably inside some gated community. Just saying.....
If Colorado republicans want to change the rules by legit procedures go ahead for 2020.
It’s wrong to know the rules fail by the rules and then complain after you don’t get the results you want.
Thousands of people voted for the Cruz delegates this year by the rules.
Trump is the one trying to cheat
My thoughts are that it is a very bad policy. But the State can change it. I am not in favor of compelling States to change their laws through coercing them, but through the ballot box. It’s called States Right to Govern.
The question of how power should be divided between the federal government and the states is really what American politics has been all about for well over two centuries. It is a question debated by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, debated by Federalists and Anti-Federalists during the ratification period, and debated between and within our political parties ever since. Elections have been won and lost on this question, and a Civil War fought over it.
That reallt says a lot about who the CO GOPe wanted for the republican nominee for president...It was rigged for their private selection...
Why didn’t they use this method for the Republican presidential primary/caucus????
The Democrats held a popular vote caucus...Why didn’t the GOPe of Colorado????
Show us a breakdown of the Trump/Cruz Colorado votes...
Show how many “thousands” voted for Cruz....
65000 voted.
Exactly how is he trying to cheat? He has pointed out the obvious faults in the Colorado policy. He has not asked that he be given any votes to which he was not entitled but has brought to the surface a nationwide Republican (and Democrat) Party manipulation of popular voting to get the results the Elite of the parties desire. IOW he has unmasked the party dictators and their sycophants and they are the ones that don't like it. If you like living in North Cuba or North Venezuela that's your choice. Its not mine however.
The overriding point is that the GOP has misled its members. Every Republican in Colorado is a member of the “party” yet they’ve been ignored so the leaders can control the election.
It’s wrong on every level but if the GOP didn’t want our input, they should have said so at the outset. We could have formed a 3rd party with Trump and we would have won. Instead they act like we’re one party then stab us in the back.
Voting by mail... What an asinine way to vote.
Were you complaining about Colorado Caucus process in 1912 when it began?
Did you ever care that Straw Votes were never binding?
For example, if there are two Republican candidates for U.S. House in your congressional district, and if only one of them got more than 30% at the congressional district assembly (a several hundred mile road trip, in my case), then there will be nothing on the primary ballot for that office. Only those who drove across the state to vote will have had any say.
This is not as bad as the presidential primary, but this means that the caucus-assembly-convention system is still reducing (though not entirely eliminating) the influence of the rank-and-file voters.
By this logic the entire constitution should be scrapped
It’s not up to voters and democracy
Anger anger trumpertantrum
Bored with all your faux outrage
65000 people voted for the RNC delegates in procedures known since 1912
Trump is a loser.
And when he loses he throws tantrums and his cult of personality followers do his dirty work of stealing delegates he didn’t earn.
As lousy as I thought participating in a caucus was, at least at some point I was handed a ballot that included:
Kasich
Cruz
Trump
The GOP voters of Colorado never even got that.
Why do you not go ask them.
They have web sites.
They have facebook pages.
It really isn’t that hard.
http://www.jeffcorepublicans.com/index.php/en/caucus-information
Excellent photo to describe the Colorado situation.
“The Democrats held a popular vote caucus...Why didn’t the GOPe of Colorado????”
The American League has a DH, but the National League does’t. Which games are better? Good arguments on both sides. They are both members of MLB, separate, though. Just like the States of the USA.
It’s not up to voters and democracy
Elections are not up to voters and democracy?
Tell us more.
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