This is just odd. The state Republican executive committee would rather have party members exercise zero influence in the critical early weeks of next year’s nomination process than take a vote at the caucus and tie their delegates to supporting that evening’s winner at the convention.
So they agreed to opt out of having the traditional presidential preference poll at the caucus, which will occur in February or March.
In other words, party leaders passed on participating in the almost unparalleled early drama of the 2016 GOP nomination contest in exchange for ensuring their delegates freedom to support whomever they like at the convention. This is a convention, mind you, that in recent decades has been a political and propaganda extravaganza, with absolutely no mystery about who would be nominated.
The fact that Colorado has a caucus system instead of a presidential primary is bad enough, since it suppresses participation. But then to opt out of the early nominating process is a truly unfortunate decision.
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