That should not disqualify them from a path to citizenship (for those who even want it).
Yes we were since selecting delegates involved multiple layers on indirect voting and at no point did we actual say who we wanted for President. Of course the delegates elected were lifetime party workers so I really question whether their loyalties were to the voters or to the Party.
538 makes the point that it’s ‘unfair,’ but in a different sense:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trumps-right-that-the-gop-primary-is-unfair-it-favors-him/
Please show figures which bear out his/his surrogate’s numbers, which is the point I made. Guess what? You can’t. They’re not reported.
OK I’m really confused. What numbers do you want?
At the time of the caucus there were just over 940,000 registered Republicans in Colorado. We were the one state that never had a straw poll so we never voted for a candidate so there are no numbers in existence for how we voted. Instead we elected a slate of party hacks as delegates that later selected another slate of party hacks as delegates that just recently selected the final slate of party hacks as delegates that by state rules are unbound delegates to the RNC.
Were we disenfranchised? Yes by our own state rules. The idea was that our delegates would be free to vote as they wanted at the RNC but they are 100% Cruz supporters. Cruz claims it’s because he was the only one organized out here. Trump claims it’s because the RNC is actively trying to ensure he loses.
I don’t see any actual evidence in the text of this article that the headline is accurate. “I can’t breathe” isn’t exactly a unique combination of words, and the author cites no evidence that Trump or his crowd connected it to Garner.
And what portion of those 940,000 actually showed at caucuses, and what percentage actually voted for Trump? (Those would be the ones who were supposedly ‘disenfranchised.’) Your number already shows Trump was overblowing the numbers to make his point.
(Again, there’s the caveat that I don’t think he’s bright enough or has the attention span to write a several-pages-long tract, I think it was a surrogate who wrote it and he just OK’d it.)
I’d say both statements are true.
My niece’s husband was selected as a delegate to attend the Colorado State Republican Convention, and he is not a party hack. He just went to caucus, and they elected him.
There are a ton of left-leaning sites that dopers keep quoting that make no effort whatsoever to fact check. They just slap eye-grabbing headlines on things and bam, ready-made audience.
Whoever feels that Reince Priebus or Paul Ryan is out to give him the high hat probably cares even less about Nate Silver’s (or Harry Enten’s) opinion.
Again, I don’t agree with Trump’s argument but I’m thankful that it’s not my job to argue against it to the millions and millions of Trump supporters.
If Trump wrote even one sentence of that editorial, I’ll eat a hat factory.
What do you not get? THOSE NUMBERS ABOUT VOTING FOR CANDIDATES DON’T EXIST!!! Colorado Pubs never voted for a candidate. Never. Voted. For. A. Candidate.
Never Voted For A Candidate
Then I stand corrected. All of the delegates being interviewed talk about working for the party for years. Incidently do you know who he supported?
[GOP Race in the 17 states that have not yet voted:
Trump 51%
Cruz 21%
Kasich 14%](https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers/status/720972924769931264)
Let me see if I can make this clear. What the hell do you think a caucus is? Those who wanted to, voted.
“We wrote the rules to give Coloradans a bigger voice in the Presidential selection process. Last year, when we looked at the calendar, we saw that Colorado was one of the later states. So we (Colorado Republicans) wanted to make sure our voice was heard. That’s what this process does. We let you know. We put information on our websites, we published it in newspapers, we sent email and snail mail to Colorado Republicans to ask them to come and let their opinions be known. Some people did, and this is the will of those people. We’re proud that Colorado voices will have a significant effect on the Republican nomination and hope that Colorado Republicans have an impact on choosing the next President of the United States”
Really, they weren’t ignored. They weren’t disenfranchised. They were invited to the table and they didn’t bother to come. I read somewhere that only 5% of registered Republicans made it to the precinct caucuses. That’s a lot of apathy. It also means that it wouldn’t have taken very much at all to flip the vote the other way - if Trump truly has all those supporters, where the hell were they? Whining about it now is not good form.
After briefly dropping below 50% last week, Trump’s chances to get the nomination climb to 60%
With Clinton holding steady, currently at 93%, it looks like the chances of a Clinton/Trump election are >50%.
Yes but we were the one state that did not vote for a candidate. We voted directly for delegates.