I offer this example of social engineering by the “progressive lites” …
The leadership inside the professional Republican party apparatus will never accept Donald Trump as the nominee. Period.
The North Carolina GOP Primary Ballot is yet another indication. Never before in party political history has the North Carolina Republican Party given voters the option of “NO PREFERENCE“. (see below):
Where do the “no preference” votes/delegates go? To the party leadership of course. What will they do with them? Give to the party candidate.
… a consolidation of power within the RNC apparatus intentionally constructed to stop the candidate of the GRASSROOTS from achieving victory.
As their grip on power slips, the attacks, obfuscation, and generally dishonorable behavior has and will continue to increase.
They just don’t get it.
Trump was a keynote speaker at the 2012 NCGOP convention and his inclusion in the convention, despite his liberal (to the left of Obama on Obamacare) leaning past, angered the grassroots Conservatives in NC. If you think he is “grassroots”, Conservative, or anti-establishment then you have been fooled. He was brought into the race to pull votes away from the Conservative candidate that the establishment fully hates and who was leading in polls this time last year.
The Progressive media has built up Trump as the clear “front runner” just as they built up Romney. Don’t fall for the BS the media spreads.
The “establishment” in the NCGOP is lining up behind Rubio.
You are right. If they get 10% no preference, 10% of the delegates to the national convention will not be bound to an electorate-chosen candidate. They will not “not” cast a vote, though – the vote will be cast by the Dallas Woodhouse faction preference. I saw it in person at the 2012 National Convention. Wayne King actually took the votes that were prior bound to Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum and gave them to Mitt Romney, WITHOUT the consent of those delegates who had their votes cast FOR them.
Actually, This was started in 1971. The same year that the bastard democrats completely re-wrote our NC Constitution and added all sorts of BS to it. There were TOO MANY changes to be made to list them all — was the democrats excuse — So they did a Complete re-write without the consent of the people.
Bob Scott was the Governor in 1971— remember now, he gave us the FELON Meg Scott Phipps as Agriculture Critter later on.
AND… He was so bad, that after one term, we threw his ass out in 1972 and elected the 1st R Governor since 1897. Holshouser.
Look up NCGS 163-213.7
Respectfully Submitted by SD2010.
Who would go to a primary and mark “No Preference” for Presidential candidate? It defies logic. Also, why would they put Jeb Bush’s name in between Donald Trump’s and Ben Carson’s, two very popular candidates. Obviously they are hoping that someone mismarks their ballot, goes outside of the lines so the marking meant for another candidate might go to Jeb Bush, or that the machine counting the marks is rigged to pick up some of the Trump and Carson votes for Bush. I hope there is an Independent testing allowed to ascertain that the voting machine that will count those marks is correctly calibrated.
Actually, it has according to the last two elections-http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/4822/en/summary.html