They prefer to have a tiny cadre of party loyalists make their decision for them.
Tuesday 1 March 2016: Precinct Caucuses meet in each precinct at 7p MST to choose delegates to the County Assemblies and District Conventions. Caucuses last about 1.5 hours. There are 2,917 precincts.
There is no formal system applied in the Precinct Caucus to relate the presidential preference of the participants to the choice of the precinct’s delegates to the Colorado County Assemblies and District Conventions; (NOTE: It is the District Conventions and the State Convention that will actually elect Republican National Convention delegates to presidential contenders).
Re the CO. caucus description:
That’s what they did at my District caucus in Missouri today. I wanted to be sure we had our allotted Trump delegates to go to State next month, and the percentage due him from this district. But it was a sham - the entire slate of 91 delegates and 91 alternates had been chosen by the Party, and we were “blessed” with having all 182 names read to us, with no opportunity to find out who they would vote for on the behalf of we, the primary voters, or to challenge anybody. I recognized only two of the names, and one I know is for Cruz. The only thing we (hundreds of people, lots of Trump supporters) were allowed to do was propose amendments to the platform they already had. The platform was fine for the state, and who cares?
The most noticeable thing there was dozens of Cruz operatives in their red “Cruz” T-shirts. The small group of Trump supporters I found and sat with were stunned, appalled and furious. We have no idea how many MO delegates for Trump might get out of the State convention in May.
That was my first and last “caucus”. We were only there to be told what the Party already decided.