True, there are Republicans voting for McLame, but he has yet to win a majority of the registered Republican vote in any state. He is getting a ton of votes from independents, and in many cases Democrats who cross over.
In Florida nearly 20% of his vote were those that had changed their party from D to RD (perfectly legal in Florida) and they can now switch back.
And, where there is a caucus the peeples do not even vote. And we all saw the underhanded, backroom dealing between McLame and Huckster that handed West Virginia to Huckster after Romney won the first delegate vote. The voters of West Virginia had nothing to do with that.
As many have pointed out here, too many of the early states that vote are liberal states, even if they are red states. The Republican leadership has done nothing over the years to pressure truly conservative states to move their primaries up to balance out the playing field.
Also, McLame has received the equivalent of millions of dollars of free, POSITIVE publicity from the media. Their obvious and blatant attempt at manipulation. And, to an extent, it has worked.
As an Illinois Republican conservative, this election cycle is purely a spectator sport. Hopeless, helpless, worthless, senseless, meaningless....you get the picture.
S.C. and Iowa Republicans are usually pretty conservative. I don’t think national Republican leadership decides what and when states vote. That’s usually decided by the state.