Posted on 04/17/2016 4:26:04 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Ted Cruz on Wyoming win: "This is how elections are won in America."
Once again, voters are not represented in the process. Instead, "votes" for the nominee are gained by backroom politics. Another corrupt process by the GOP establishment.
From Fox News:
Ted Cruz on Saturday won all 14 delegates in the Wyoming GOP convention -- a relatively small number but enough for the Texas senator to declare victory and keep GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump from securing the nomination.
“We are likely to have a battle in Cleveland to decide who is the nominee,” Cruz told party members before they picked the delegates. “If you don’t want to see Donald Trump as the nominee, … then I ask you to please vote for the men and women on this slate.”
The Wyoming process mirrored that of Colorado, which was engulfed by political controversy after hosting a similar convention last week.
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Please be more specific as to what points you think I got wrong.
Meadow Brook Music Theater in Auburn Hills, MI
Bonus: I love Stanley Clark so it was great when Weather Report played School Days.
A group of us 40 somethings were under the pavilion singing along with the lyrics. The Dweezil Zappa does Zappa show is worth seeing when it comes around. True to the originals.
Rochester Hills
Bigot.
Would you rather everyone sit gawking at CNN, FOX or Univision?
That was a good special.
Done and done. Cannot wait to leave the Republican Party once this election is over. I’ve already called my Senators, congressmen, local RNC people and the national RNC to let them know that a lifelong Republican is embarrassed and fed up with these crooks and I cannot wait to disassociate myself with this party and become an independent. Further, if they continue their anti Trump movement I will write him in on the ballot. I hope many do.
This is a dumb comparison, since that difference in electors is precisely designed to limit the power of states with a higher population. IOW, it's designed to insure they aren't disenfranchised. It's also dumb for another reason, since it's apples and oranges. People in Colorado, the working class, etc., should have the right to determine who it is they support. Comparing a voterless election to an actual election in the general is just absurd.
Should we get used to this new GOP (and Dem) policy of elites and delegates deciding who should rule over us? It may be time to prune the tree of liberty.
You do understand
- that in Colorado, there was a caucus and the grass roots, mom and pop republicans DID VOTE.
- that no registered republican was turned away from the precinct
- that ANY REGISTERED REPUBLICAN from that precinct is allowed to enter their name for either precinct captain or as delegate for the state convention or as the alternate.
- that the mom and pop grass roots republicans who show up caucus night vote for their delegate to represent them at the state convention
- That 3,953 delegates so selected go to the state convention and represent their precinct by voting for a slate of delegates for the national convention (37)
- that this is the way Colorado has chosen it’s delegates since 2004.
- that this process is modeled on how the Constitution calls for the selection of the members of the house of Representatives.
All of the bloggers think they are Walter Winchell.
In actuality, they are Walter Mitty.
An awful lot of new blogs showing up here now, aren’t there. Where’s our resident Blog Enforcement Officer when we need him???
Frank Zappa always put on a great show. Saw him in Chicago, South Bend, Portland, Maine (moved out here in 1984) - he had the League of Women Voters out in the lobby and from stage urged everybody to register and vote. Pretty ironic, given his quotes in this thread!!
I'll make a point to see a Dweezil show, thanks for the recommendation.
Way past time.
The thing’s getting to be a Sequoia
“You don’t think the sparse amount of people in Wyoming don’t feel disenfranchised by the large number of electoral college voters in New York and California ?”
If they do they don’t understand arithmetic. The people of Wyoming have the highest impact on the electoral college, not the lowest—they have one electoral vote per 142,741 people. The people of CA have one electoral vote per 508,344 people, and New York gets one electoral vote per 519,075 people. The dilution of votes is much higher in heavily populated states.
“There is just something wrong with CRUZ. I am thinking maniac.”
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There is just something wrong with TRUMP. I am thinking mafia.
Keep mud-slinging.
Legally chosen just as chocolates are legal and geroge soros got weed legal.
WHAT IS WITH cBAL23 POSTER..
here since fEB 2016 AND HE’S TELLING YOU WHAT YOU SHOULD DO?????
YEESH
“There is just something wrong with CRUZ. I am thinking maniac.”
There’s just something about the much vaunted “ground game” that creeps me out a little. It’s like if he got elected “his people” would swoop in and the jaws of a trap would shut. Which might be ok. :-)
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