Should Florida be allowed to advance its primary?

Question

Or, should traditional first primaries be left as they are?

Answer 1

1. I think the National Committees of the parties should set the dates of the primaries.

2. The primaries should go in order of the state with the least number of delegates, to the state with the most number of delegates. Dates to be determined by the National Committees of the parties.
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Answer 2

The State of Florida can hold a presidential primary on any day that it chooses.

However, if the Florida Democratic Party and the Florida Republican Party want to stay a part of their national parties, they have to comply with the rules for delegate election set forth by their respective parties. Those rules allows states to start their delegate selection process on February 5th. So if the State of Florida is going to hold a primary in January, the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee have made it clear the primary will be non-binding and the Florida parties can choose delegates by the caucus process.

The national parties have opted to allow New Hampshire and Iowa to hold contests in January (and the Democrats have further authorized Nevada and South Carolina to hold contests in January). Both parties recognize the need for some structure to prevent chaos (but have done a lousy job at it).

Whether or not New Hampshire and Iowa should be first is a different question from what the parties have decided. The parties decided the rules before any candidates declared. To allow the rules to be changed in the middle would be stacking the deck for particular candidates. We can debate who should go when for 2012. For 2008, Florida and other states need to get back in line.

Answer 3

No, they should move the the end of the line. They could not get the vote count right in 2000, so why should Florida voters get an opportunity to decide which candidates get a head start as the front runner in the primary elections.

Answer 4

This whole election has been pushed up for no good reason other than people to get used to a black and a woman. This is Bullchit and neither of them of worth it.

Answer 5

actually considering the last fiasco election perhaps Florida should be prohibited from engaging in politics for a couple hundred years

Answer 6

the federal government should not get involved in this, they're elections at the state level.

and one state can't bring suit against another for its primary votes.

Answer 7

They can do whatever they want, but I understand the parties won't accept their delegates if they go so early it violates party rules (that would be before February.)

Answer 8

No non of the states should be able to.

Typical dems trying new tricks.

Answer 9

any