[TheRealThing]

You keep saying that Santorum won the caucus (when you are not incorrectly calling it a primary), which is true. Explain how Santorum, winner of the caucus straw poll, emerged from Colorado with only 6 pledged delegates to runner-up Romney's 13 delegates. Ron Paul was blown out in the popular vote and still had 5 delegates pledged to him. Gingrich received more votes than Ron Paul and had zero pledged delegates.

How do you reconcile those numbers if the popular votes were used to apportion delegates? The answer should be obvious to you by now. The delegate pledges were voluntary and were unrelated to the votes each candidate received. A straw poll and an election are not the same thing. The straw poll was nothing more than an opinion poll. 12 delegates elected not to pledge their support to any candidate, but none of the delegates were required to pledge their support.

As I said, the 2012 Colorado Caucuses and the non-binding straw poll that was held are a well documented part of history, not a matter of opinion. The map that you posted does nothing more than show the results of the straw poll. It is probably 100 percent accurate, but it does not change history.

Fine, I and my fried mind prefer the sage insight of those such as Michael Savage, Denver Post political reporter Joey Bunch and literally hundreds of highly regarded professionals in the field on all of this. The fact is you got so far up on your high horse about this deal out in Colorado, which was clear cut voter disenfranchisement, you had to allow yourself 3 hours to free fall back to earth.

I'd rather we were friends again, at least on here. But if that means I must support you when I think you're wrong, I respectfully decline. None the less the truth is, I have always respected your point of view on the many stories and issues that we discuss on this forum.