Blame Florida for such a messed up primary schedule...

Click here for the article, "Blame Florida for the GOP's holiday craziness" by Byron York
Source: Washington Examiner 

Have you ever wondered why the primaries and caucuses take place when they do? I sure have and this article explained it to me a little. The Iowa caucus was originally supposed to take place February 6th, but Florida decided that they need to have more of a say in the primaries so they moved their date from March to January 31st. This caused turmoil in the Republican schedule because Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada were supposed to be the first states to vote. So all of the primary and caucus dates had to be moved up resulting in Iowa's caucus taking place on January 3rd. The last GOP debate is usually a few days before the first real caucus/primary which meant that it would take place on New Year's Eve which was impossible. The debate took place on December 15th, nearly three weeks before the caucus. It was crazy that the candidates had to campaign most around the holidays, which is already a crazy period in everyone's lives. All this confusion occurred because Florida wanted to be first! But it might backfire, because of the weird scheduling the later states might actually have more of an impact on the GOP results, as opposed to the first states.

The author was definitely against Florida, he made it seem as if Florida thought they were above it all. This article doesn't really educate the voters about the candidates, but it does address a problem that could affect the voters. The primaries being so early may not have given voters enough time to make up their minds. Just because Florida is the biggest swing state doesn't mean that they should cause chaos just because they can. I learned that Florida is a very selfish state, politically speaking. If Florida kept its date, then we would still be in the phase of just learning about the GOP candidates.