Posted on 04/08/2016 3:39:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz continues to rack up delegates in Colorado with another clean sweep today, bringing his total in the state to 18...
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If I lived in Colorado I would feel cheated by them not allowing all the folks to vote, regardless of who wins.
They’re not “classmates” at Harvard. That implies they attended at the same time. They did not.
Have they always not allowed voting by the people? I wouldn’t like that.
Go, Ted, go!
And if you think a lot of Cruz supporters are smoking dope in Colorado you are a dump chit.
Colorado had a presidential primary for a few cycles starting in 1992. They turned it over to party caucuses to save money from the state budget, and the parties didn’t mind because caucuses can give a state more political clout.
I've been told by party insiders that they used to have voting by the people; but they switched to the caucus system because everyone thought things would work better if the "most active party members" (euphemism for "insiders") decided everything. This was before I moved to the state.
Why does that matter? The GOPe already said it doesn’t matter unless Trump doesn’t have 8 Rule 40 states, which he does.
See how that works?
here... have another hit.... weeeeeeeeeee
good stuff eh?
Yeah, having voters obey all those “rules” that exclude them from voting is really a cornerstone of our Republic.
Creates an argument for Cruz to be the compromise candidate at the convention versus some GOPe stooge they might try to foist.
I ran one of the precinct caucuses in Colorado four years ago. If candidates can "put up names," this is a very different system than what we have been using in previous presidential elections. Do you have a reference for these new rules?
Trump won Missouri
Cruz couldn’t even get about 43% in his home state of Texas
Where people vote, Trump wins
Was just picturing that same thing - duuuuuude, coooool, I’m in...where’s my money? Ohhhhh, I gotta call Mercer? Cooool
There are so many layers of delegates choosing delegates (who can lie about whom they support) that the original caucus attendees (who are themselves only a few percent of the public) have essentially no influence over the outcome.
Only people who are willing to spend two or three days on the road attending the state convention really have any say in the matter; and even then there is still problem #1 above.
What’s the Canadian word for “yuge”?
;-)
By a few hundred votes...
Cruz couldn’t even get about 43% in his home state of Texas
And yet Ted won more delegates running against 4 other candidates than Romney won in Texas running against 1 other candidate - when Romney won almost 70% of the vote. (Texas did't vote until May last time, after the race was already decide).
Sour grapes and excuses
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