Donald Trump complained about bid-rigging in Colorado and other states in his April 14 Let Le Ask America a Question Op-Ed submission to the Wall Street Journal.
Trump’s question/comment is “How has the ‘system’ been working out for you and your family? No wonder voters demand change.”
While I tend to agree with the overall theme of his op-ed, the fact remain it was his mostly his poor organization that took him down in Colorado. Cruz hypocritically took advantage.
Indiana is arguably a different kettle of fish. The Indiana GOP just named all its delegates even though voting is not until May 3.
Only one of those delegates is for Trump.
Indiana GOP Stacks Deck Against Donald Trump
On her show yesterday, Rachel Maddow commented Indiana GOP Stacks Deck Against Donald Trump Before Primary Vote.
Click on the above link to see a video of Niki Kelly, reporter for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, and Rachel Maddow discuss how the Indiana Republican Party named its delegates before there has even been a primary vote.
So far only one of 57 appears to be a Trump supporter regardless of who wins the primary.
Impossible for Trump to Win Indiana?
Maddow: “Even though the sate of Indiana has not yet voted, and there is no polling, I can confidently hereby tonight, proclaim, and this is not even a prediction, I can tell whatever happens with the Republican vote in Indiana on May 3, I can hereby tell you Donald Trump will lose Indiana.”
That may be one of the longest sentences in talk-show history. I actually edited out parts of it.
Maddow went on to say “He will lose it, at least, in the only way that really counts. And the reason I can tell you that is 57 actual human-flesh delegates …..”
Satan vs. Trump
Image taken from Maddow video clip.
Trump is slightly more preferable than Satan to at least one Indiana GOP delegate.
Trump Can Win Indiana
Despite that amusing rant by Maddow, Trump can indeed win Indiana. He also needs to win Indiana.
Indiana delegates are bound to Trump in the first round. No one figures Trump can win if it takes more than one round.
Maddow assumes Trump cannot win in the first round. That’s a mistake as I have noted on several occasions.
That said, the vote is indeed stacked against Trump. But right now, it’s still within Trump’s power to win outright.
To do that, he must win Indiana. And I still project Trump will win Indiana, and will offer reasons in another post.
For now, I stick with my prior analysis.
- Trump’s Odds of Winning Way Better than Nate Silver Believes
- Princeton Professor Projects Trump has 70% Chance of Winning Primary; Nate Silver on Trump’s Dwindling Chances; Silver vs. Mish
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
So those that means that the American voting system is still the most democratic ………. or is the voting system in the US corrupt as anywhere else ? The country that prides to be democratic ……. and the capital of democracy………. or is that a spec in peoples eyes?
No, and no.
Especially since technically it’s supposed to be a republic – which it ain’t been since….
So Indiana’s GOP is as criminal as this action. (See link below.)
FYI
Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout if Congress Passes 9/11 Bill
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-warns-ofeconomic-fallout-if-congress-passes-9-11-bill.html?_r=1
Note this is nowhere in the TV media today. Who really owns our media ?
Saudi’s could settle the lawsuits easily. I’m guessing they are more concerned about the disclosure of information.
Turn the U.S. media and the Europa media on their end and you can read: “Made in Saudi Arabia.”
Paid by them too!
A primary is not an election subject to the constitution, I don’t think it is legally required to be democratic or anything else.
So anything that isn’t provably illegal, it’s OK??? (And btw, everything’s illegal under some law.)
Unfortunately Shamerock, I fear you may be right. Primaries can apparently legally be run by con-men.
What a dealmaker, that Trump. Did he go into his real estate dealings undereducated, out manned and then whine about how unfairly he was being treated when he could readily manipulate the rules just as easily as the Cruz team? The system is rigged? Yeah, of course. Economically, politically the system has been rigged for thousands of years. Trump should know that. He’s been involved in the rigging most of his career. I’m really surprised at your support, Mish. I know it’s a lesser of two bad choices, but wouldn’t this be a better opportunity to comment on the fallaciousness of the current party system instead of supporting this guy and casting lots with Palin and Savage. These guys and Matt Drudge have taken a tremendous gamble with Trump. I don’t see how it pays off. They believe in him? What’s there to believe in? His opaqueness is disturbingly Obama-esque circa 2007.
Our political system, from its inception was built with many buffers against the democratic notions of the rabble. The system sucks. Cruz sucks, Trump sucks and the Democrats suck. Let’s not lose sight of that in some kind of support for Mr. Trump because he states the obvious truth that the system sucks. Obama did the same thing in ’08 with a different set of platitudes.
Staying home in November is not a sin. If it is equivalent to a vote for Hillary, then it is equally a vote of “no confidence,” and I don’t have to justify sacrificing my priciples.
Charlie, TX
The hypocrisy of the two-party system on display.
The R party is demonstrating why it is a minority party and will continue to decline – it’s a brawl at the 19th hole!
But the DC GOP still keep their million-dollars-or-more per year cushy positions even if a “Dem” wins.
Wake up, it’s the Uni-Party, just as in Mexico!
jc you should mark sarcasm comments. Otherwise, post a comment with references about which is worst: the repub democrat-lites,or the dummycrat destroy America socialist/commie or dummycrat worst ever most corrupt pathological lying candidate of all time.
Both parties never said anything about the will of the people. That’s the mouse in the room. When Priebus says these have been the rules since the time of Lincoln, what does that say about the system ?Trump’s mistake was not mounting an independent bid from the beginning. He will be held off from being the nominee due to lack of understanding the rules. The Republicans will go down in flames in the general and the party may go with it.
“When Priebus says these have been the rules since the time of Lincoln, what does that say about the system ?”
What does it say about Priebus? Rules change over time. Last convention there was an anti Ron Paul rule, which did not exist in the time of Lincoln.
It says Priebus is a liar.
“Cruz hypocritically took advantage.” What does that mean? Trump “hypocritically took advantage” in FL where he got < 50% of the vote yet "STOLE" 100% of the delegates!!! That's real hypocrisy! If Trump wasn't a hypocrite he would want a proportional outcome in FL (and Nevada, and Hawaii etc. etc) but because he won those he is the true hypocrite and you are too biased to see it!
There is a difference between a Primary Election and a Premature Ejaculation, but not much.
Wait for it. Trump will not win the primaries. Looks like I will do like last time and vote for local reps and local issues on the ballot only. Sooner or later people will realize they have no real choice. Candidate A or Candidate B appoint for you to vote for is not a choice and never was. We call other countries of the world out for their elections and now the world is just laughing at us.
I would never listen to the USA about voting after all of the charades paraded forth this year. Bernie will never get the nomination either. Trump basically trumped the anointed Bush and now they are out for blood and Cruz will get it. Votes, smotes, a real candidate that does not conform to the party ways and is not politically correct in every way will never be elected in my lifetime. Career politicians think they are anointed to rule over us all. Hand picked and selected from the top 10%.
Meritocracy is the new democrat party while the repubs implode because they have morals LOLOLOLOLOLOL!
… reminds me of the old Jewish saying, “next year in Jerusalem”.
George Carlin hit the nail on the head 28 years ago. Just prophetic:
George was so ahead of his time and expressed his views with satire and comedy. His messages were spot on then as they are today.
Just like the electoral college, they really do not have to accept the popular vote and cast ballots accordingly. Very Constitutional of them..
One observation: you can start your own party or you can work to get your preferred candidate on any state ballot you want. This is not about America being unfair it is about a private party choosing which person it wants to use its resources to put on the ballot. Do you think that a non-government party should be subject to an externally determined set of rules? Isn’t that a central planning position? The government has an obligation to give everyone equal protection because you can’t start your own government. A political party does not because a) it’s private and b) you can start your own if you don’t like the ones we have. How much regulation would make you happy?
The sole purpose of the Republican Party is to get people elected to government positions. To claim that it’s a “private” organization which need not be concerned with democratic legitimacy is laughable.
It’s a cute theory, but the two major parties have a virtual monopoly on all government and media power. If somebody wants to get elected to office, they must go through the dems or the GOP. If one of those parties blatantly goes against the will of the voters, it is an attack on popular sovereignty.
Inspired by Mish’s informal polls I conducted one of my own. Mine is even more pathetic than his since it involved just 6 of my co-workers but I found the results telling nonetheless. I asked them “Which of the remaining presidential candidates would be most likely to involve the U.S. in a war or other military action?” The results were:
Trump: 5
Clinton: 1
At least 3 of those that chose Trump, were quite emphatic about it — an opinion that, as far as I could tell, is based primarily on the fact that he is loud, arrogant, and obnoxious. I realize that this sample size is statistically useless but I suspect that an awful lot of people would answer the same way.
Proof of how uninformed voters are. Trump never even hit his kids. He’s a negotiator. Doubtful that he would be starting any wars.
By stacking the delegate deck against Trump, the GOP is telling voters their vote doesn’t count, their voices mean nothing. Voters are no longer represented in government.
This move has all the makings of a huge blowback since those against Trump will become complacent and not vote, while those frustrated with the status quo are even more incentivized to vote for Trump. The GOP also increases its chances Trump runs as a 3rd party candidate, destroying any chance of a GOP president.
No, no, no.
The GoP simply has to refuse to seat any delegates from trump-mandate states until after the first round.
They’ve done that before.
Then Trump loses the first round. Then they refuse to let Trump or any of his supporters even have a speech, as was done four years ago.
Or…. they can do as the Democrats did, preferring Nixon to the popular choice of Democrat candidate, and beat up any trump support’rs, and keep them fom even reaching the door.
There’s still lots of options available for the GOP.
Not that I agree with any of it. But as a former Ron Paul, Allen Keyes, Ross Perot supporter…
… I know that all this is nothing new. The only difference is that now it’s blatant, and the rose colored glasses are coming off peoples’ eyes.
Trump isn’t one of them, he hasn’t been initiated into the secret society.
https://youtu.be/dO-NA73FsW8
I knew this was coming. Ted Cruz father paid a visit to Indiana in early February.
The second week of February, in the first two days, HUNDREDS of laws were passed in Kokomo…about ‘parks?’ Education, etc…
Last week, his father paid another visit to speak on his Canadians son behalf, in Kokomo.
The next day, the funds were being accessed for the news laws to be implemented.
Tell a lie often and loud and most people will begin to believe it. Colorado has the same system as Hawaii. Trump won Hawaii and never whined about the rigged, crooked system. People are voting in record numbers in all the states whether at caucuses, conventions, or primaries, but Trump only complains when he doesn’t win. The more this man talks the more I become convinced that I could never cast a vote for him.
Cruz is getting hammered in NY, yet he still shows up and holds rallies and puts forth his platform because he believes and respects all voters. Trump purposely doesn’t put forth any effort in states he knows are not likely to be receptive to his views. He then accuses those states of being corrupt. What a troll.
Hello Indiana GOP, Congratulations on sticking it to DJT and destroying the Republican Party. IDIOTS