[scooby321]

The Denver Post had first reported the Colorado Republicans’ decision to cancel their state presidential caucus on August 25, 2015:

Better Check your Math , Reince Priebus

[CA Conservative]

The Denver Post had first reported the Colorado Republicans’ decision to cancel their state presidential caucus on August 25, 2015:

Which made exactly no change to the process of selecting the delegates. By the way, they didn't cancel the caucus - the canceled the straw poll. But the straw poll has never been used to award delegates. So yes, the process was known for more than a year.

[Cboldt]

I haven't fully figured out the Colorado thing, but I think it goes like this:

• August 2015 - state party says all delegates will be unbound, to avoid a situation like 2012 when the delegates were bound to Santorum, who was not a contender at the convention
• September 2015 - RNC tells Colorado GOP that it can't send unbound delegates to the convention
• Colorado GOP conducts a non-binding straw poll or caucus to get a sense of state party preference, in March
• Colorado GOP conducts delegate election at a convention, with delegates stating a candidate preference in advance. 100% of delegates elected are for Cruz.

There are allegations that the delegate election process was manipulated by a handful of "controllers," and that the result does not reflect the mixed-will of the Colorado GOP. There will be challenges to some of the delegates. i imagine the detail basis for these challenges will be varied.

Meanwhile, Trump is using politics, talking about disenfranchised voters and so on, and this message is getting some traction among the public. Reince is likewise engaged in sound-bite defense. Manafort has gone on a different path, the one that follows the actual rules in place, which he does not object to.

I question the RNC's insistence that all delegates be bound in advance of the convention. I understand that doing so helps to script the convention activities, but that is really the only function of primaries and pre-convention binding. The RNC can tolerate a certain amount of uncertainty going in (some first ballot delegate positions unknown), but doesn't want to deal with a fully open process at that stage.

[kara37]

The Denver Post had first reported the Colorado Republicans’ decision to cancel their state presidential caucus on August 25, 2015:
Better Check your Math , Reince Priebus

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They didn't cancel a presidential caucus. They canceled their non-binding straw poll. Also, The Denver post referred to it as a presidential preference poll, not a caucus.

Better check your facts.