When Colorado made these rules changes, they were made expressly with the candidacy of Jeb Bush in mind. The idea was to grease the skids for the guy.
It didn’t work out as planned, tho, with the totally unexpected meteoric rise of Trump, and Jeb’s subsequent disappearance from the race.
Since this was all engineered by establishment party hacks, the decision to ride the changed scenario of establishment anti-Trumpism was an easy one.
On this go-around, anyway, participatory democracy was not on the minds of our GOP-E betters, who apparently think they know better than we do.
In the overall scheme of things, Colorado isn’t very important, but with every “election” that isn’t an election, we see with ever more revealing clarity just who Cruz is, what he does, and how he operates.
I’ll admit - I’m a Trump guy. That being said, The difference between these two men is a chasm, and I simply can’t see myself voting for Cruz...under any circumstance.
CA....
Colorado has been overrun with dope smoking liberals. They probably thought a republican primary election would be more or less meaningless and decided to “play it safe”.