{"id":5230,"date":"2014-06-25T17:24:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T00:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=5230"},"modified":"2014-06-26T07:44:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T14:44:33","slug":"caucuses-dont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/caucuses-dont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Caucuses don’t work"},"content":{"rendered":"

2014 Republican Governor State Assembly Results<\/span>:<\/p>\n

Sylvester ————\u00a0 1.59%
\nHouse ————— 12.81%
\nBrophy ————– 18.89%
\nGessler ————- 33.11%
\nKopp —————- 33.60%<\/p>\n

2014 Republican Governor Primary Results<\/span>:<\/p>\n

Kopp —————- 19.83%
\nGessler ————- 23.21%
\nTancredo ———– 26.72%
\nBeauprez ———– 30.24%<\/p>\n

Evidently the Colorado Republicans who self-select<\/em> by showing up at precinct caucuses to volunteer for county and state assemblies do not accurately represent the cohort of Republicans voting in the primary. In 2010 the caucus system gave us Dan Maes, and everyone knows how well that worked out.<\/p>\n

It’s time to thank the delegates<\/em> for their service, retire the broken caucus system, and move to a petition process more representative of the electorate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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2014 Republican Governor State Assembly Results: Sylvester ————\u00a0 1.59% House ————— 12.81% Brophy ————– 18.89% Gessler ————- 33.11% Kopp —————- 33.60% 2014 Republican Governor Primary Results: Kopp —————- 19.83% Gessler ————- 23.21% Tancredo ———– 26.72% Beauprez ———– 30.24% Evidently the Colorado Republicans who self-select by showing up at precinct caucuses to volunteer for county and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5230"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5243,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions\/5243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}