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Where are the numbers??

!!! After reading my post, dynoman, you can still ask that?

I'm sorry. I mistook your first query for "the numbers" as a genuine question. I had no idea you intended it as merely a rhetorical question intended to prove (by your receiving no answer) that: "There are no numbers!"

And thus I unwittingly messed with your little rhetorical ploy by mistaking your question for a genuine one, and taking hours to put together every single number I knew of (incomplete as they must necessarily be due to no statewide Straw Poll this year), so that you could get some glimmer of the feelings of the average registered Colorado Republican who cared enough about the Presidential race to rise from their chair on Tuesday Mar 1 and drive a few minute away to their local Precinct Caucus to vote.

I painstakingly provided every number I could get my hands on via my own copious note-taking at the State Convention, my notes of my own County's unsanctioned Straw Poll, my access to people who were able to get the unpublished numbers from the 3 other counties, and more.

But it turns out you choose to ignore all that. Well, forgive me for spending hours in the mistaken assumption I could provide you with a fair number of missing pieces of the numerical pie and that you would think that was worth something.

I know better now. In the future I will avoid your postings like the plague, and treat them as nothing more than invitations to completely waste my time.

But before signing off, I will take a bite at one other piece of bait you dangled, and say something about that disgrace named Ryan Paul who you quote, our state GOP's ex-Chair who was roundly defeated last year for re-election due to a variety of reasons.

But the absolute worst thing he did IMHO was when he sold the Colo GOP down the river to the DemocRATS in 2011 by agreeing to put onto the supposedly nonpartisan state Redistricting Commission a liberal Democrat who Ryan claimed was a nonpartisan (because he'd once contributed a few $$ to some RINO's campaign; big horky deal). And his agreeing to this Dem tilted the commission from middle of the road to majority-Democrat, so that the Dems got 100% of what they wanted in the redistricting following the 2010 census, thus making our job all that much harder to elect a GOP statehouse or GOP congressmen. I found my county ripped out from a CD where the GOP had won every single election save one since the early 70s, and put into a new one that appears to be permanently Democrat for the foreseeable future.

Well that's all I have to say to you.

Over and Out.