Posted on 04/10/2016 11:36:07 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
Special note from Colorado GOP Chairman Steve House on the decision to eliminate the presidential straw poll:
This past week I have received many questions about why the Colorado GOP eliminated the presidential straw poll at this year's caucus. There are several important facts and considerations to take into account.
At no time prior to this year has a straw poll bound delegates to specific candidates. Many thought that the 2012 straw poll bound delegates to winner Rick Santorum. In fact it did not.
There are some voters who believe this year the Democrats will bind delegates to Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders on Tuesday - they will not. The last time either party bound their delegates was in 2000 when we had a presidential primary.
This year the Republican National Committee requires that if a party conducts a straw poll it must bind delegates to the results.
Some ask why the Colorado GOP doesn't just comply and bind all of our delegates proportionally to the result of a straw poll. There are a number of reasons the executive committee decided against the poll this year and I won't go into all of them.
However, I want to share my most pressing concern with doing a binding preference poll. There is no such thing as a binding preference poll because when you actually award delegates via a poll it's not a poll - it's an election. The results could affect the outcome of the presidential race because this year the race is likely to be very close if not unsettled at the national convention.
So what's wrong with an election? Nothing if you are actually going to run it with all the precautions and security measures of an actual election. In our case we have over 2000 precincts in 64 counties where there is no uniformity of ballots, no uniform credentialing training process, no clarity on who actually counts ballots, no clear answer to who controls the tally sheets, and no uniform transparent process with integrity in the event there needs to be a recount. The prospect of awarding delegates through a straw poll with so many systemic loopholes and fraud risks is an unacceptable gamble given the stakes of this presidential election.
Picking our delegates through a controlled and secure four step process that is open to all registered Republicans is far preferable than an opaque straw poll. Something needs to change going forward but election integrity is still more important to me than any other factor.
I am confident that the process we use to elect delegates which provides the option for delegates to self bind to a presidential candidate will give Coloradans the opportunity they need to express their preference for president.
-Steve
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Amen!
Does this eliminate CO from the first round ballot?
(Thought I’d read something about that.)
If so, does this, then, lower the required number of delegates Trump needs?
Do not fool yourself in thinking that people support what is going on. You would be wrong.
http://www.denverpost.com/editorials/ci_29563108/colorado-gop-blundered-2016-presidential-caucus
Sounds like you’re inviting violence because your candidate performed poorly? Not cool.
How were the delegates selected? Republicans selected them by VOTING for them.
The delegates were voted in. How do you think they were selected?
>How were the delegates selected? Republicans selected them by VOTING for them.
Yes 8,000 republicans out a million registered in the state. That’s the party bosses voting for the party bosses and you know it.
Well my vote is going to count. Just told every single one of my Colorado customers to go f themselves. I spelled it out. Colorado MUST be PUNISHED!!!
When did you stop being a pedophile? See how that works? Don’t do it.
“Delegates have always honored the voters unless it was very, very close like in 1952.”
Well, wrong. But thanks for playing.
Here’s a hint: Yes, some delegates are bound by Party pledge to support a specific candidate during the Convention vote. CO has no such stipulation.
That was back in end of Feb. The anger is even greater now.
What JediJones said is the same as what shrillary said.
Like I said in the other post, people are even more angry than back in Feb.
I attended a local county Republican meeting a couple of months ago. Normal citizens, not “party bosses.” These people, who are registered as Republicans and who are involved at the local and county level, were the ones who voted in Colorado. If you wanted to vote, you would get involved in local politics. Just the way it works.
“I attended a local county Republican meeting a couple of months ago. Normal citizens, not “party bosses.” These people, who are registered as Republicans and who are involved at the local and county level, were the ones who voted in Colorado. If you wanted to vote, you would get involved in local politics. Just the way it works.”
It’s also “Just the way it works” in the Soviet Union. The members of the Communist Party met, elected their delegates and leaders, and the other 95 percent or more of the population were denied the opportunity to vote for their leader. Like the Communist Soviet Union, any delegate foolish enough not to be voting for the Party approved candidate was removed from their position as a delegate in one way or another before voting could occur.
PING!!
From the 3 min mark to the 4 min mark or listen a little longer to 6 min mark on the topic.
21:23 Minutes
Ted Cruz Takes Questions from Sean Sean Hannity CPAC (3-4-16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w5PvJX4x-E
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/03/05/cruz-just-say-no-to-a-contested-convention/
Quote here post by true believer forever
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3419594/posts?page=35#35
The above Cruz quotes from 03.05 - barely a month later he’s changed his tune considerably. What happened between then and now - Super Tuesday wipeout. STW - and all of a sudden morals, principles and values change - 180 and on a dime. This is what people need to focus on - and understand. Let others argue numbers - go shrill. This is what Ted does - and why in God’s good earth would anyone expect he’d do otherwise if elected - and political realities change. How long will it take him then to change or discard his promises - 180 and on a dime.
Cruz will be mathematically eliminated very soon - IF, after that, he continues - stealing backrooming delegates - he’s helping the GOP “and the DC power brokers drop someone in who is exactly to the liking of the Washington establishment.”
You are free to be involved in politics at the local and county level. I have been. You can be as well.
If you choose not to take the time to be involved in local/county politics, then you have only yourself to blame when your candidate of choice isn’t the one who gets the votes.
We are NOT a “democracy,” by the way. We are a “republic.” This is the way a republic works.
Again, it was NOT a “voterless” victory.
Registered Republicans, active at the local and county level, VOTED that their delegates be assigned to Ted Cruz.
Well La Ti Da, ain’t that just such a novel idea. Why didn’t I think of that while I was voting in the Republican Convention. Why don’t you try to something more in line with your aptitude, like making paper and tinfoil hats for Cruz supporters.
You are free to be involved in politics at the local and county level. I have been. You can be as well.
If you choose not to take the time to be involved in local/county politics, then you have only yourself to blame when your candidate of choice isn’t the one who gets the votes.
We are NOT a “democracy,” by the way. We are a “republic.” This is the way a republic works.
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For a party that wants the “tent” to expand, to welcome more people into the “party”, they sure keep their meetings secret.
There has been no invitation to a GOP local meeting and we’ve been here a long time.
The meetings are not publicly announced, so they must be an exclusive “club”.
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