Colorado, 2012:
votes delegates
Rick Santorum 26,614 40.3% 6
Mitt Romney 23,012 34.9 13
Newt Gingrich 8,445 12.8
Ron Paul 7,759 11.8 5Wyoming, 2012:
votes delegates
Mitt Romney 577 44.0% 23
Rick Santorum 360 27.5 2
Uncommitted 203 15.5 —
Ron Paul 160 12.2 1 See? In 2012, the social squish had the lock with the GOPee Establishment, just like the squish has the lock in 2016...
Trump...squish?
Rick Santorum 26,614 40.3% 6
Mitt Romney 23,012 34.9 13
Newt Gingrich 8,445 12.8
Ron Paul 7,759 11.8 5
Wyoming, 2012:
votes delegates
Mitt Romney 577 44.0% 23
Rick Santorum 360 27.5 2
Uncommitted 203 15.5 —
Ron Paul 160 12.2 1
See? In 2012, the social squish had the lock with the GOPee Establishment, just like the squish has the lock in 2016..
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And yet, no one can recall anyone whining and crying about both Wyo. and CO in 2012.
In fact, I don’t recall anyone whining as much as Donald. And to think we make fun of the snowflakes on college campi when our own frontrunner is one himself :0
de nada, And I believe Romney got 24 or 27 delegates in the end.
The rules have been rigged for a long time. It’ s nothing new for 2016. If you review the history of both the national and particular states’ rule changes, it’s patently obvious. Frontloading HQ is a good source that examines this in a nonpartisan way.
They will modify the rules multiple times until they feel assured they will achieve their desired result. This explains the extremely low participation by voters. Most have given up a long time ago in these states with less than 3% voter participation.
Why invest time and energy in a game that has a predestined outcome. You may be used as a young fresh face-decoration to project the image of equality and fairness—a Patsy. In reality, the real delegates were handpicked long ago. They are entrenched in the system and are close friends, family members, or business partners of the state party chair.
In 2012 the CO primary was a non-binding beauty contest that meant nothing. That is why they did away with the misleading charade in 2015. Would you rather that they kept the charade?
Bottom line: There has to be a process. Whatever the process is, those who educate themselves to know the process... and to show up ... they control the outcome.
We need to change the behavior of the establishment. But we also need to change our own behavior. Too many of us dont educate ourselves as witness the ignorance expressed on FR. And too many of us dont show up.