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Thats why we need to allow people to vote. Shame on Colorado for orchestrating this debacle of a caucus. In 2020, CO will vote in a primary election.

Having a difficult time accessing the complete article from here, if anyone can post the rest of the article, it would be appreciated.

1 posted on 04/22/2016 4:14:41 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
What the results show is a potential disconnect between the more dedicated group of delegates who participated in the state convention and the far broader group of 350,000 to 400,000 Republicans who would typically vote in a primary election.

Kind of like the differences between the Politburo and the Peasants.

2 posted on 04/22/2016 4:21:55 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Well, this supports what I’ve been saying all along.

The delegate pool consists of what is essentially a random sampling of all potential voters. If the population of potential voters supports 44% Trump, 34% Cruz, 17% Kasich, 5% other, and then a random sampling from that population should contain supporters roughly equal to those percentages (within statistical error). There is no way a random sampling from such a population would contain nothing but Cruz or undecided voters.

If an outcome is so far different than the statistical prediction, then something untoward happened. There is no other possibility.

The good thing is that Trump knows when to take advantage of opportunities, and he used this to good effect: witness New York!


5 posted on 04/22/2016 4:28:49 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

bttt


6 posted on 04/22/2016 4:28:49 AM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: LucyT; onyx; Jane Long; Amntn; nikos1121; NIKK

Anyone surprised ?


7 posted on 04/22/2016 4:34:36 AM PDT by hoosiermama (W1240 (a couple extra to boot) Under budget. Ahead of schedule! Go TRUMP)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Didn’t Trump take all of the delegates in Hawaii in the same manner? Where was the outrage?


8 posted on 04/22/2016 4:34:50 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Cruz’s campaign is about subverting democracy and disrespecting voters. Shameful - it appears there’s a lot of Latin dictator in the Ted Cruz persona.


9 posted on 04/22/2016 4:44:54 AM PDT by indcons (Lurker mode mostly)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

I find it interesting that they never even took a poll in the state of Colorado. I think it was to set up the steal.


10 posted on 04/22/2016 4:50:26 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

http://coloradopols.com/diary/82917/its-official-the-colorado-gop-lied-about-nevertrump-tweet#sthash.QMW9rmmE.dpbs


13 posted on 04/22/2016 4:55:08 AM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Shame on you for trying to influence FR with this unknown “contract” poller (sort of like a contract poster)who gives no information on how the “survey” was conducted or who was the funding sponsor (who benefitted the most?).

Would you have posted results not quite so favorable to your boss?


17 posted on 04/22/2016 5:07:50 AM PDT by X-spurt (William of Ockham endorses Ted Cruz. 'the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected')
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Primaries vs Caucuses
Elected vs Selected.

In my opinion, the GOP will have fewer primaries in the future. Those damn voters are starting to get a little uppity.

That said, am I the only one that is worried that Trump is starting to sound like a politician now? Especially with his interview on the Today Show.


18 posted on 04/22/2016 5:12:27 AM PDT by Tupelo (we vote - THEY decide.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Maybe all male voters for LGBTrump were in the ladies room smoking weed with little girls.


20 posted on 04/22/2016 5:29:55 AM PDT by strings6459
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Colorado was a PR disaster for the GOP and Cruz.


25 posted on 04/22/2016 5:46:31 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbonok&)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Most of the people commenting do not live in Colorado and are ignoring the facts. After trying to figure out what the title of this tread meant I figured everything else was screwed up.

The Tea Party groups made big gains in the Colorado republican party so I think this is the reason for the misinformation and outright lies on the Colorado process. The Trump people came to the caucuses and asked for the straw poll and when they said there was not one they LEFT!!

Many of the trump people abandoned Colorado then attacked the Tea Party.


31 posted on 04/22/2016 5:59:02 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Nothing to see here...

It was a landslide victory that people should be talking about instead of NY.

The benevolent overlords know best.

Move along...


39 posted on 04/22/2016 7:25:54 AM PDT by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
We decided to fill both voids at once by fielding a 609n automated survey (April 5th-6th, margin of error +/- 3.97%) of likely Republican Primary voters in Colorado.

The Colorado Republican series of conventions involved 65,000 at various levels with almost 8,000 at the State Convention, so this automated survey sample size is roughly 1% in comparison.

Even if Trump had the statewide support, he certainly failed to get his supporters to the conventions.

41 posted on 04/22/2016 7:32:44 AM PDT by DrewsDad (Choose Cruz - The Consistent Constitutional Conservative)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

“In 2020, CO will vote in a primary election.”

I wonder if they’d still want to vote Trump by then?


42 posted on 04/22/2016 7:35:15 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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