After Loss in Colorado, Donald Trump Supporters Give State Chairman an Earful

New York Times ^ | 4/11/2016 | Alan Rappeport

[snarkpup]

[Colorado Republican Party Chairman Steve] House acknowledged that there are a lot of deeply entrenched players within the party who think the system works well and believe that those who are the most politically engaged should determine who becomes the party’s presidential nominee.

[RedWulf]

>Pretty amazing that only 60,000 registered republicans caucusing in state with a population of 5 million.

I still haven’t seen any proof anyone caucused. The people I talked said there was nothing to vote on when they showed up at their caucus location.

[blueplum]

In a field of six, Trump got 33% of South Carolina’s vote and also won a plurality of every district, resulting in winning all 50 delegates. Rubio, second and Cruz, third, running 10% behind, won no individual districts. Cruz has been active in South Carolina, though, in a backdoor drive to get turncoat delegates seated that are inclined switch their vote should there be a contested convention. And while it may be wasted effort, since Trump is on track to reach 1237, it’s an enlightening exercise for the future in identifying which delegates focused more on their own interests than those of the people they were selected to represent.

[caww]

Nobody put a gun to the heads of these people Fai.....but what you’re trying to say is ‘one’ chairmans “intention” moved the entire system to go with Cruz? I don’t think so.

The state on a whole was already Cruz leaning and most opposed to Trump pretty much across the board...and many made it known.

If people wern’t happy with what the Republicans were doing then they had opportunity to object to the calls the GOP was making...they didn’t.

[D-fendr]

>>And none of those votes mattered

If you get your facts from Trump’s twitter, I can understand that belief.

Facts are different though.

[D-fendr]

>>”Latin is a dead language, dead as it can be. First it killed the Romans..

Latin killed the Romans?

[D-fendr]

>>didn’t happen.

The convention was televised, you can watch clips here:
http://gazette.com/live-coverage-of-the-colorado-republican-convention/article/1573804

Trump chose not to appear.

[AndyTheBear]

The committee's own resolution of fairness in their closed process--I defy anyone to show me any reason why Trump was not give a complete and fair chance, and that it was Cruz's super human brilliance that allowed him a clean sweep after reading how very very very fair the policy on fairness was:

Therefore, be it resolved that:

The Colorado Republican Party forbids any of its delegates to the Republican National Convention to vote for Donald Trump for president or vice president on the first ballot or any other ballot, and

The Colorado Republican Party asks its delegates to national convention to pledge on their honor to do everything in their power to help secure the presidential nomination for someone other than Donald Trump.

[AndyTheBear]

He was adviced it was useless to appear. He somehow got the idea that maybe it was rigged and hopeless. Maybe the little resolution in my post 87 gave him the idea it wasn't going to be perfectly and completely fair.

But no, I am so sure the resolution guaranteed complete impartiality and a willingness to let the people decide with no malice toward anyone...why just read it. It was Trump's silliness and Cruz's absolute brilliance that allowed him to win in a system where nobody who supported Trump was allowed to participate.

[JediJones]

If no delegates switch votes in a contested convention, it will remain contested infinitely. Someone has to switch to get the number above 1237 on the second ballot. The whole name of the game is finding delegates who can be persuaded to vote for you. The actual presidential primary votes become irrelevant by design if 1237 bound delegates is not reached on the first ballot. No different than the electoral college, where if a majority of electors is not the result, then state delegations pick the president. Delegates are representatives of the people who are voted on like any other representatives. The people of Colorado voted on theirs as most states did.

[Mark was here]

People get confused because the government runs primaries in some states.

This is the problem. As you say political Parties are independent organizations from the government, any one can form their own party and the party can make their own rules.

I would even go as far as to say if Democratic and Republican parties want to have their own caucuses in Congress or State Legislatures, they should pay the government rent, for any rooms they occupy, as they are really just a private group.

[LNV]

All states should have closed primaries.The number of delegates from each state should be based on the number of Republican voters in that state in the previous election. All voters should have to be registered as party members well in advance of primary day. All delegates should be bound. All delegates should be awarded proportionally, according to the percentage of the vote each candidate received.

Five simple rule changes fix all of this.Five simple rules avoid wheeling and dealing and ensure the eventual nominee represents the expressed will of Republican voters.

Of course it won’t happen, because the party would lose the power to overrule the people’s choice. But five simple rule changes would fix all of this.

[catnipman]

Further your wrong to tell a state how or not they should conduct their system as a Republican Party

Why? I'm a Republican who's lived in Colorado for over 40 years.

"..... ‘every state has the right’ to make their own rules....People who are complaining need then to get involved and change their rules....otherwise those who ARE involved with their states election get to set those rules... just because your state, or you yourself think they should do it differently it is still their choice...their state their Republican Party."

Well, you're right about that. It's THEIR Republican party, not mine. It's the Republican party of the rich, the elites, the oligarchs, the plutocrats. It's NOT the Republican party of the working stiffs.

[caww]

...”It’s THEIR Republican party, not mine. It’s the Republican party of the rich, the elites, the oligarchs, the plutocrats. It’s NOT the Republican party of the working stiffs.....

Well now that sounds like a demorat right there. They say the same thing.

[caww]

They’re so busy regurgitating Trumps lines that they don’t check the facts nor figures themselves.