Welcome news that Florida – along with California, Illinois and New Jersey – are likely to move their 2008 presidential primaries to early February. It will lessen the inordinate influence of the demographically skewed states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Wonder is it has taken so long. Imagine a mammoth electoral swing state such as Florida, where the I-4 corridor can make or break a presidential race, having no say as to who the actual presidential nominees are.