“With Cruz, he wins the reddest of red states, where you have voterless primaries, where the rules favor, you know, organization versus appeal to the voters,” he said. “Trump wins in states that we have to win to win the presidency.”
Yes, I guess we should all be concerned a candidate that is organized prevails.“The lady doth protest too much, methinks”
Hamlet - William Shakespere
Perhaps the outcome of all this would be a first step towards Voting Rights and a challenge towards Citizens United.
Not coincidentally, the states also dependent on federal welfare.
Tantrums , tantrums , tantrums .
It obviously depends on what kind of “organized” you want. Being able to get a few hundred key people to spend a couple days on your cause may require a different kind of organization from being able to get tens of thousands of random people to a voting booth.
I don’t fully understand (except for the power that it gives insiders while presenting the appearance of choice) why the GOP goes to the trouble of holding publicly-visible primaries in states where that primary has no real effect on the delegate count.
Sort of similar to Obama getting 50.01% of the popular vote to Romney’s 49.13% in Florida in 2012, yet all 29 votes in the Electoral College going to Obama. What say did Romney’s 4,163,447 Florida voters have in the final outcome of the election? None so far as I can see. Trump is upset with disproportionate allocation of delegates as relates to popular votes in the primary/caucus process. He’s really going to be burned up when he’s .08% percent behind his Dem opponent in a state in the general and has nothing to show for it.
Manafort said on ABC that the Cruz campaign has “had to muscle things”
and that in Colorado and Missouri, they were “not playing by their own rules.”
Welcome to politics Mr Manafort.
Now allow me to introduce you to the Republican Party.
jw1
“Sort of similar to Obama getting 50.01% of the popular vote to Romney’s 49.13% in Florida in 2012.”
Sort of similar to Gore getting 50.0% of the popular vote to Bush’s 50.0% in Florida in 2000.
Fixed it for ya.
I think you actually augmented my point. And in the interest of accuracy:
Florida:
Bush > 2,912,790 votes 48.85%
Gore > 2,912,253 votes 48.84%
Well, more similar to the setup that Pennsylvania wanted to institute where electoral votes would be allocated by congressional district, so that (because of existing gerrymandering) a candidate would be able to get 90% of the electoral votes with about 30% of the popular.
There’s no doubt Republicans would like to make the Electoral College a proportional allocation based on Congressional district vote tallies. There has been some push back from Federal courts and SCOTUS on the most egregious GOP instigated vote scams. However, I wouldn’t be surprised Republicans chip away at the most fair, sensible approaches to counting ballots to the point one day about 15% of the voting populace determines the Presidency. I definitely see a proportionally allocated Electoral College in the future.