Posted on 04/16/2016 6:58:49 AM PDT by McGruff
Still reeling after Sen. Ted Cruz’s delegate sweep in Colorado, voters are waking up to the fact that delegates are the ones who will determine the Republican nominee and that the primaries and caucuses are just for show. What’s more, there might just be another Colorado on the horizon, where voters will get no say at all.
Up next is the state of Wyoming, a state which, along with Colorado and North Dakota, has chosen to not hold a nominating contest this year, which means no primary or caucus vote. Instead, Republican voters there will be represented by county delegates at a convention April 14-16. They will select the statewide delegates who will represent Wyoming at the Republican National Convention in July in Cleveland.
Wyoming holds 29 delegates: 14 will be elected at the convention and 12 have already been selected at county conventions — nine of which are Cruz supporters. One delegate went to Sen. Marco Rubio, one went to Donald Trump, and one is uncommitted. The remaining three delegates slots automatically go to members of the state GOP.
After the results in Colorado, a decision made last August when the state party there decided voters would not weigh in, one can expect Trump and his team to take Wyoming seriously and put forth a strong effort to make sure their supporters are selected to the remaining 14 slots at the Wyoming convention.
Wyoming is the final state to opt not to hold a nominating contest. Following the Cowboy State are states such as Delaware, Arizona and Virginia, which will hold their state conventions on April 30 — following their state’s caucuses or primaries. Most of the other states have gone more as expected.
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The Democratic caucus broke down to this:
Clinton-——71,928
Sanders-——49,256
Please show me the Republican caucus breakdown....
Ahhh, so you just made up the title of the protest...I see....
The Colorado GOP did not hold a presidential preference poll in 2016.
I see where your coming from, as the Presidential Preference poll is nothing more than a non binding beauty pageant you were thinking it would have been an advantage for Trump? After all it would have given Trump another opportunity to explain to the people of Colorado how much better off they would be with the Feds controlling more of their land!
Ahhh, so you just made up the title of the protest...I see....
Based on the facts,please excuse me if i missed Cruz calling for the protest!
The great thing about these frauds is that it’s getting noticed from both parties just what a mess these states are. I see major changes coming in 2020. I’d like to see a state primary a week for 50 weeks. He is the primary goes over a year anyway. Each state must have a primary and each candidate gets a week in each state. If we held fair elections that’s what would happen. No more caucus’ and politicians picking candidates. Only voters and the most convenient way to vote possible. Our elections are worse then North Korea.
No, actually, I’m thinking it would show who the people of Colorado would prefer to be the nominee rather than who the GOPe leaders would prefer.
The people themselves could’ve selected Cruz over Trump maybe...But we won’t know because the people weren’t given the opportunity to be heard....PERIOD
Please show us all where Trump organized the rally you speak of.....
It is the Cruzbots who are drunk on Ted's open borders, globalist, Goldman Sach, Seven Mountains Dominionist rhetoric.
Yes it is. Banana republic. We are a democratic republic or representative democracy. The founders didn’t want the surfs picking our leaders but for the subjects to pick our leaders. The people get to vote in the general and the winner gets the electorate. Same thing should happen in the primary. The states of Colorado and whyoming are going against the founders. By the way you are incorrect when you stated we were a federalist government.
Please provide colorados breakdown.
Colorado has had these caucuses for the last 15 years. Trump was aware of it. Trump was also aware that the delegates would be chosen at the state Convention. Trump had the opportunity to attend the Convention and address the body. Trump chose instead to blow it off.
So yes, Trump knew. Trump considered Colorado not worth the effort. And now he and his supporters whine about the results like a bunch of Democrats.
Compare that with Ted Cruz who already had an organization put in place in Colorado last year. Ted Cruz was the first Presidential candidate to address the Colorado Convention in four decades. Ted Cruz deserves kudos for the work he and his supporters put into Colorado. Yet all Trump supporters do is blame everyone else for their failure to work.
Please show us all where Trump organized the rally you speak of.....
I never said Trump organized the protest, what Trump did do was call for protest so it only seems fair to attach his name to it, after all Trump wants his name in lights for everything else. After all had 10,000 people showed up Trump would have been screaming from the roof tops that the people agreed with him!
So you want to get rid of the electoral college? That’s from our founding documents and somewhat similar to the CO process.
Please provide colorados breakdown.
If you want to sort thru the 8 different ELECTIONS to get that info your welcome to it.
Or Cruz paid local bosses to rig the results. There were Trump supporters at the convention, lots of them and yet not one single Trump delegate was elected? Preposterous.
Louisiana is more egregious than Colorado because Mr Trump won that primary but Senator Cruz paid off, or otherwise convinces party bosses to give him all of the unassigned delegates that have traditionally been assigned proportionally. So Cruz lost the election but ended up with the same number of delegates.
The hue and cry “But those are the rules” doesn’t fly in the face of unethical parliamentary maneuvers to deny delegates to a candidate or to overturn election results. Mr Trump was not going to get any delegates at the Colorado convention because the state party chairman was going to use whatever means needed to prevent that - and he did and then tweeted about it.
Saying “Those are the rules” in such cases where the rules are being manipulated is logically the same as a prison camp guard saying “I was just following orders”
I’m sorry if you disagree with that because it is the truth. If Senator Cruz manages to get the nomination he has alienated 30%+ of the Republican base. He will not beat PIAPS because many Trump supporters that had him listed as their 2nd choice just moved him him to below PIAPS and Sanders.
Uhhhhh...Yes, you did...
“... the Trump disinfranchised voter rally in Colorado...”
What crap of course. So much for transparency. I wonder how many politicians voted more then once if they had 8 different contests. I see why the voters of Colorado are outraged. They should be.
” the primaries and caucuses are just for show”
Is that what Trump said when winner take all rules gave him lots of delegates with less than 50% of the vote?
No I want the electoral college to be used for the primary. The citizens vote and who wins the state gets the electorate. The primary should run like the general does.
Fine. How about also booting out Republican candidates who threaten to go third party if they don’t win the nomination?
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