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Related: About this forumDenver and the West Colorado Republicans cancel presidential vote at 2016 caucus
Colorado will not vote for a Republican candidate for president at its 2016 caucus after party leaders approved a little-noticed shift that may diminish the state's clout in the most open nomination contest in the modern era.
The GOP executive committee has voted to cancel the traditional presidential preference poll after the national party changed its rules to require a state's delegates to support the candidate that wins the caucus vote.
The move makes Colorado the only state so far to forfeit a role in the early nomination process, according to political experts, but other caucus states are still considering how to adapt to the new rule.
"It takes Colorado completely off the map" in the primary season, said Ryan Call, a former state GOP chairman.
Republicans still will hold precinct caucus meetings in early 2016 to begin the process of selecting delegates for the national convention but the 37 delegates are not pledged to any specific candidate.
Learn something new every day around here. Just amazing!
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28700919/colorado-republicans-cancel-2016-presidential-caucus-vote
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Denver and the West Colorado Republicans cancel presidential vote at 2016 caucus (Original Post)
leftcoastmountains
Feb 2016
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orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)1. Most of the Dems I talked to in Iowa hate it .
beveeheart
(1,369 posts)2. So glad we're not being subjected to all those Repub ads.
Thank you, thank you, GOP exec committee.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)3. Brokered Convention. Fun and Games.