Sooo..whats the deal with the Florida Primaries for Democrats or for that matter..Republicans?

Michigan, Florida, and Wyoming did it. The republican party rules state that any primary (except Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, and South Carolina) held before super Tuesday will result in only half of the delegates being awarded. The democratic party rules state that all delegates will be lost. These rules were in place before the 3 state legislatures changed their dates, so they knew (or should have known) what the consequences would be.

The reason this is important is becoming more clear each day. Look how many candidates have already had to drop out of the race, with only 3 or 4 contests already completed. In order to give a fair chance to each candidate, the majority of states vote on super Tuesday or after. Personally, I would like to see states hold their primary elections whenever they want, but no results would be released until ALL state primaries were completed. That would give everyone a fair chance and the media would not be such a huge factor in determining the outcome.

The primaries in each state are to establish delegate supporters for the respective party national conventions. Whomever wins in Florida, their supporters will go the the RNC and vote for that person to represent the Party as the Presidential Candidate in the general race.

Same goes for the DNC.

Both parties IN THAT STATE agree about when to hold the primary and request the polling sites be open on that date. If the national party leadership doesn't like it, they can issue what ever penalties against their own party people that is legal and reasonable.

This has nothing to due with the right to vote or democracy in regards to the electing of government officials. The only thing that covers this is the Right to Peaceable Assembly and voter laws that protect people from being harassed or prevented from voting.

A couple states did that. They just scheduled their primaries way too early and violated party "rules", so they took away some of their delegates. Doesn't matter. It's all about momentum anyway. My personal opinion is that Romney is going to come away with first, Huckabee 2nd and Giuliani and McCain fighting for third. My reason? McCain lives on independent votes, which are a factor in the polls prior to the big day, but he will crash in Florida, since only registered Republicans are allowed to vote. No independents! Huckabee did rather well in Iowa compared to what the polls showed, partially because of the fact that it was again a closed race.

These are the primaries, so the voting rules come from the parties, not government mandates. Voting legislation only applies to the general election.

They don't want to be associated with what's about to come down there after what occurred during the 2006 elections. It would kill their party and they know it. It might happen that way anyway.

Dem's get no FL. delegates, And Republicans only get half their delegates.