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The thread asks a question and posters have answered. You don't like the answers? Well, that's just too darn bad. No one forced you to read this thread. Nor did they force you to respond with a rude comment.
Why are you objecting to a supposedly "rude comment" since as a Trump fan, you apparently like rude and crude? Or is only His Awesomeness the Buffoonanator allowed to be rude and crude?
Trump and his staff are amazingly uninformed of how the nomination process works. This is yet another example of how even when it becomes clear that there is important information they don't know or understand that they don't bother to educate themselves about it.
It is a serious flaw for someone who wants to be president.
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More like Trump's campaign is being run by people who is as ignorant and incompetent as he is. The list of delegates his campaign distributed to be voted on had incorrect numbers assigned to them, and since voters choose delegates by those numbers and not by name or candidate affiliation, those who wanted to vote for Trump's delegates were unable to do so.
Was this an example of "the best and smartest people" he claims he will have in his administration? If he can't even figure out how to procure delegates, how can anyone expect him to navigate the much more complicated duties of the most powerful office in the world?
You start with the end goal, winning the nomination and work backwards in excutiating detail.
Had his people done so they and their candidate would not have been blind sighted.
The very different processes of both parties are designed to achieve the respective party's goals, not necessarily the will of the popular vote.
It is what it is and Trump's people should have known this going in.
Trump has taken pride in how little he has spent compared to the competition and when it comes to the nuts and bolts of the process, it shows.
I think he finally hired someone who knows the ropes a few days ago.
The rules for 2016 will be written after all the states have already voted. It's like that to prevent what happened this year. The voters made a mistake by voting for Trump or Cruz. They really meant to vote for Jeb Bush or Paul Ryan. That's why we have delegates. The Delegates are much smarter than the voters. They know to keep the convention deadlocked until they can give the nomination to an establishment Republican. Thank God for delegates and superdelegates. They protect us. Can you imagine a general election between Sanders and Cruz or Trump? It will end up being Bush v Clinton - just like we all predicted a year ago.
Agreed. I think that's where its headed as well.
As an aside, I've read three of your posts in three different threads over the past few minutes. I like your style.
Republicans Didn't Even Let The People Vote In Colorado
How can that be? Sleazy Lawyer Ted Cruz is standing there claiming victory. The GOP is now officially The Go Blank Yourself Party. Unbelievable! Really time for Trump to run Third Party.
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How can that be? Sleazy Lawyer Ted Cruz is standing there claiming victory. The GOP is now officially The Go Blank Yourself Party. Unbelievable! Really time for Trump to run Third Party.
Since he's claimed to not be part of the establishment he should've done that from the start.
I had not heard this, but looked it up and was really surprised. Colorado had decided to do that some time ago, but they also replaced a delegate that was supporting Trump in order to get Cruz the win.
Very sad that neither Cruz or Trump will be the nominee. Especially sad, this year - when a magnifying glass is on the whole process. A lot of new voters coming out for Cruz and Trump. The voters don't matter anymore.
There will be a lot who normally do not vote that would vote if Trump got the nomination. This is true or Sanders and many of his supporters as well. I think one thing that is safe to say, by now, the American people do want change. It is also safe to say, it may not happen this time around.
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I had not heard this, but looked it up and was really surprised. Colorado had decided to do that some time ago, but they also replaced a delegate that was supporting Trump in order to get Cruz the win.
They key is you could look it up. While some of the things going on with the GOP may surprise many, is there anything Trump or anyone else couldn't have learned in advance? He chose to play the GOP's game in the GOP's arena, should've run as an (I) if he didn't want to play by their rules.
Ted Cruz is doing the typical sleazy lawyer things to win. A lawyer defends a guy knowing full well he's a murderer/tax cheat/racketeer/rapist/etc. and tries to get him off on a technicality like the search warrant said you could only search the house for the knife he used to stab his victim 30 times, not the detached shed. That's how Ted Cruz plans to win. He's using his sleazy lawyer bag of tricks and trying to win on a technicality. Then he celebrates his victory.
They key is you could look it up. While some of the things going on with the GOP may surprise many, is there anything Trump or anyone else couldn't have learned in advance? He chose to play the GOP's game in the GOP's arena, should've run as an (I) if he didn't want to play by their rules.
Each state having a different way of dealing with the presidential election process, such as caucuses or the rather odd way Colorado does it, is the American Way! The concept of state's rights is tied to the differences in the way individual states want to deal with their own issues. Despite the fact that people haven't bothered to research how each state operates and they don't like it, the state don't have to cave to the desires of anyone who isn't working within their state framework to change something.
Regarding the guy who was denied being a delegate... Think about delegate turnover - a specific candidate to be a delegate isn't necessarily going to get selected. They probably have more candidates than slots.
This guy thinks it is because he supports trump. It may be, or it may be that he got there late and the delegates already got selected, or he ticked off someone in the selection process for some other reason, or they just wanted a different demographic. Assuming that it is only because of trump is... exceedingly egocentric.
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Republicans Didn't Even Let The People Vote In Colorado
