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Thanks for posting this.

I note with great sadness the responses from the hardcore Trump supporters here - no one actually adresses the points in the article; they just post cutesy little pictures and make vague assertions about “establishment lies”. The pro-Trump posts here get more and more like something I’d read on democraticunderground.com every day.

I also am very disappointed that these same people are trying to make the case that anything or anyone not supporting Trump must be pro establishment. Anyone asserting that Cruz is part of the establishment is either badly misinformed, being disingenuous, or both.

The fact is, the Cruz campaign org is playing the game by the rules, and runnng rings around The Donald’s campaign org. I have no doubt that, were the roles reversed, these Trump supporters would be proudly “Trumpeting” praise for the effectiveness of the Trump org in navigating the rules of the various state primary systems.

While the Wyoming and Colorado rules aren’t my preference, there’s nothin illegitimate or even new here. This is not much different than the many states and local jurisdictions that have runoff elections if a candidate does not win a majority of the votes. The system isn’t perfect, but it is designed to prevent a candidate that is NOT preferred by a majority of the voters from winning due to the vote being split across more than two candidates.

The Donald and his org had every chance and opportunity to do the same thing that Cruz is doing, but they do not seem to have developed as effective of a state and local presence, and instead have a campaign that is focused on the many advantages Trump has with national media exposure. Both are perfectly valid strategies, neither is cheating. Grow up.