If you didn’t have to work between 7:30pm-9:00pm or have to put schoolchildren to bed on a Tuesday night, then you had the opportunity to participate in the Colorado caucus. And that's what defenders are calling "the voters DID participate."
It really amounted to party insiders controlling the process. But, hey, it is Colorado's state right to do it that way. The trouble is that the GOP is not coming out of this primary season with a good reputation, because Trump's candidacy is making people notice how the process is really working.
What it does do is expose the true motives of the ruling class, because the people don't differentiate the primary vote from the Constitutional office vote when they see their "vote" taken away from them. Caucuses are "appointment voting" because you must appear at a meeting hall at a designated time to participate; there is no opportunity for early, absentee, or all-day voting.
Even though primary voting is often a sham, the reputational damage to the party is enormous when they play fast and loose with the process.
-PJ
I know...I was hearing Trump complaining about how he got the unfair advantage of WTA states. He was going to do the honorable thing and insist those delegates vote proportionally according to the states vote. He is really fair and consistent and never complains without doing the right thing himself.
How do you explain about those working 12 hours a night and need ot sleep for the next night, how about marines based in Afghanistan who were denied to vote for a delegate , lets say John Smith who they have never heard of anyway?
How about people for that state who were out on an oil rig, business, overseas working and yet denied their right to vote?
The system is corrupt and you know it and I know it and so do the marines based in war zones right now who were denied.