It's true that voters used to be able to vote in a straw poll, but it had no bearing whatsoever on delegates. Those have always been chosen by caucuses just as they were this time.
When the RNC declared earlier this year that states could not conduct meaningless primaries (beauty pageants), Colorado cancelled its. Trumpsters may not like it, but nothing has changed.
Trump's team just hadn't bothered, I guess, to learn the rules.
This is a dumb statement. Of course they knew the rules. I'm glad to see so many establishment jackboot lickers such as yourself are now all of a sudden, satisfied with the status quo. Your ignorance is allowing the GOPe to continue their corruption. May your chains rest lightly, and may posterity forget you were our countryman.
Call: That’s exactly right. While the caucus votes we’ve held in previous elections in 2008 and 2012 were always straw polls, they didn’t bind or allocate the delegations. They at least were a snapshot into where voter sentiment is in the state of Colorado, and the decision by the state Republican Party to cancel that vote taken in connection with the caucus really did cut out any semblance of democracy or the popular will in connection with the delegate election event. It became an entire party insiders game with getting delegates to go to county assemblies in the state convention. While Colorado has over a million registered Republican voters, the only votes that really counted were that of the 3,900 delegates that gathered down in Colorado Springs.
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