Colorado decided to take the voters out of the equation in August. Follow me if you can; in August the national polls
were reading Trump 25%, Kasich 5%, Cruz 5%, so they didn't pull this bushleague trick to benift Cruz or Kasich
but because they didn't like the possibilities that the polls suggested at that time. The polls for the earlist primaries at
that time, Late August, were:
FLA: FOX: Trump 29, Carson 25, Bush 19, Rubio 6
IOWA: NBC: Trump 29, Carson 22, Bush 6, Paul 6
NH : FOX: Trump 28, Kasich 12, Carson 11, Bush 8
It's obvious to anyone looking into the matter with a rudimentary amount of
common sense that the Colorado GOP insiders who were hoping for a Bush or
Walker or even Rubio nomination decided that outsiders like either Trump or Carson
were not going to spring towards the nomination if Colorado could do anything about it,
so they claimed the right to offer up state delegates instead of letting the people
vote.