Krazeehorse wrote:So I'm not the only cynic on here?
It is just the reality. At best we vote for the people that choose the winner, and they are not necessarily tied to our vote. The primaries change periodically but the electoral college is designed to protect us from our own ignorance and hysterics of the day. It was pretty smart actually if you actually believe there is a layer that knows better (debatable, but the common electorate are morons as demonstrated in here every day LOL... relax I didn't really mean it LOL but our founding fathers did). It is also amazing to me that some cling to the great wisdom of out founding fathers until it gets to this point.
It could be argued it is here to protect us from Trumps of history. The primary and/or convention is just another convenient layer designed for much the same reason.
You can vote for whomever you like until it doesn't match up nicely, then the "establishment will take over. It was intentionally designed this way.