Posted on 04/27/2016 11:18:44 AM PDT by snarkpup
Future presidential primaries in June?
It’s possible that the Colorado legislature will re-establish the presidential primary that lasted for three elections (1992, 1996, 2000) but it won’t be in the form that the House State Affairs Committee approved on Monday.
House Bill 1454 escaped committee on a party-line vote, with the Democratic majority on top. Presuming passage by the Appropriations Committee Thursday morning, it is likely to be debated on the House floor Thursday afternoon.
(Excerpt) Read more at completecolorado.com ...
The article provides a lot of detail on the current status of this. It was the Republican's mess in Colorado more than the Democrats that made the state into an international laughing stock; and it sounds like some of the Republicans are trying to cover their behinds and may need some prodding.
More details can be found at the Colorado General Assembly website.
Colorado voters need to engage. You are so right about that.
Colorado got in this embarrassing mess by apathy. Either, voters care about democracy enough to show up, or they will continue to cede ground to activists who will show up because they do care.
The first issue is that it is a beauty contest for many who don't have a snowball's chance but a huge ego. Running eight or nine contenders early is pointless and exposes all candidates to negative campaigning.
The second issue is that each state seems to have it's own agenda and process. Some standardization would eliminate the circus atmosphere.
The third issue is that primaries should be used to reinforce strong candidates. By this time, under the current system, most candidates have been defined either by their opposition or a mocking media.
“Colorado got in this embarrassing mess by apathy. Either, voters care about democracy enough to show up, or they will continue to cede ground to activists who will show up because they do care.”
Agreed. This is such a great process here in Colorado that ALL of our elections should be held this way, instead of all elections (except primaries) currently being conducted via convenient mail-in ballots sent to all registered voters.
Instead, we need to duplicate the caucus process for ALL elections, where everyone comes home from work, feeds their families, hires babysitters, and then wastes two hours going to nearly meaninglessly “caucuses”, then attending county assemblies to elect insider party officials who know best and will do whatever they want to at Congressional assemblies and/or the state convention.
It’s nearly a perfect form of democracy.
Absolutely NOT! This is a BAD bill. It allows non Republicans to decide who the Republican nominee (open primaries).
No thank you!
Colorado voters are too busy with their doobies and snacks.
Absolutely. We need all closed primaries so that people Donald Trump don’t ever win.
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I dont care about Trump wining the nomination or not. You are aware that the delegates to the state convention vote on more than just who is going to be the nominee ... right?
Things like officers for the party,
Platform for the party,
Rule changes for the party,
I dont want non-party members changing these to be more RINO / Democrat-lite. The party has moved too far to the “middle”. This is exactly how the GOPe came in and tried to take of the party from ‘88 til ‘04 when we got enough grass roots voters to toss them out. Now they are back again and trying to take over with the help of the Democrats.
Show me the State Ted Cruz won in a Closed Primary vote not Caucus
I think maybe Idaho?
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