(part ii here)
Did you know that in spite of the fact that there are votes held to determine which person will represent the Republican and Democrat parties in the presidential election, Colorado decided to take that decision directly out of the hands of voters?!
To win the Republican nomination, someone must obtain 1,237 delegates, which is just over half (there are 2,472 available, so this is half plus 2, because the total is an even number). Therefore, if one candidate obtains 1,236, another 800, and another 436, any of these candidates can be chosen by the GOP to represent them in the election.
What this means: the primary voting potentially has almost nothing to do with the candidate the GOP chooses to represent them in the presidential election. So, uh, democracy? Not so much.
Here’s what happened in Colorado… The GOP in Colorado decided to skip the whole primary voting process and have the party to choose amongst themselves who would receive the delegates. This year, Trump, like him or not, is threatening the GOP in a big way, so every one of the 34 delegates went to the candidate who is not a threat to the party: Ted Cruz.
The moral of the story…
The two major political parties in this country have one and only interest: their own. They care nothing for the interests of the voting public, except inasmuch as the voting public helps them accomplish their goal: staying in power. For this very reason, many Republican leaders would rather have Hillary Clinton become president than Trump!!!
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