As the article said (my bold below), "Colorado's process is hardly "voteless." We've got votes coming out of our ears. Tens of thousands of people voted -- I've seen 65,000 reported, I've seen 70,000. No, they're not "party insiders." I mean, 70,000 "party insiders" in one state? Come on."
Have you ever been selected as a delegate to a state Republican convention? I have, and I'm no party activist or official. We elected a college student to be our district's delegate to the Republican National Convention. He wasn't any kind of party official or insider. There is a lot of voting at the local, county, and state meetings/caucuses/conventions and lots of discussions and voting on platform and party issues.
If you really want to make a difference in your party, go to those meetings. Better yet, organize a group that thinks the same way you do, and go make your voices heard. Or you can sit home, and, having chosen not to make the effort, you can grouse and complain about the results and how unfair and rigged they were.
You can rationalize all you want, but this is the result that the people of Colorado gave when asked whom they preferred.
TRUMP CARD: Magellan Poll Finds That Trump Would Trump Cruz in a Primary
Colorado Peak Politics -Conservative Bully Pulpit ^ | April 21, 2016 | Colorado Peak Politics
Posted on 4/22/2016, 6:49:24 AM by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
There has been a lot of agitation from the Trump Camp about the caucus process in Colorado – and, maybe, now we know why. A Magellan poll released today shows that in a head to head match up, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would beat his opponent Ted Cruz in Colorado.
Here are the numbers when voting on the current ballot:
44% – Trump
34% – Cruz
17% – Kasich
5% – undecided
If voters were asked to choose between Cruz and Trump, the result is little changed:
48% – Trump
42% – Cruz According to the poll, Trump’s top spot is due to his strong stance on immigration and national security. From the poll summary:
“Simply put, support for Donald Trump is being driven by his dominance among the 22% of voters that believe stopping illegal immigration is the the top issue.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3423563/posts
Yeah, yeah, rules is rules, but getting those delegates the way he did crushed Cruz in the opinion polls and he won’t recover from that.